So a 14-year-old is independently flushed with cash?
I believe in free range kiddos, I was one of them; but free range child rearing doesn’t mean parents and/or guardians abandon their parental responsibilities. I feel like we have a bunch of feral parents out there, ignoring their kids and buying them whatever they want.
I remember hiring the 15-year-old across the street to feed our cats one weekend. When we paid her $60 for five feedings, I thought her parents were going to have a fit (they thought it was too much in 2004) and they got super involved with how she’d allocate her money (tithing, savings, and a movie I seem to recall).
Somewhere between that and I don’t give a fuck about my child seems to be the sweet spot.
