Instead
make a comment that can
teach your
child something
about making money decisions, such as, «Those are pretty, but we choose not to spend $ 200 on a pair of shoes when we can find ones we like for thirty dollars.»
According to the memoirs of Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein described the citizens of the village as «wicked» for refusing him his ration of milk because he was
teaching the
children mathematics — and that was
about logic, not
making money.
The parenting behaviors are assigned to nine subscales (with item examples in brackets): positive parental behavior («I
make time to listen to my
child, when he / she wants to tell me something»), autonomy («I
teach my
child that he / she is responsible for his / her own behavior»), rules («I
teach my
child to obey rules»), monitoring («I keep track of the friends my
child is seeing»), discipline («When my
child has done something wrong, I punish him / her by taking away something nice [for instance, the
child can't watch TV,...]»), harsh punishment («I slap my
child when he / she has done something wrong»), ignoring unwanted behavior («When my
child does something that is not allowed, I only talk to him / her again when he / she behaves better»), inconsistent discipline («When I have punished my
child, it happens that I let my
child out of the punishment early»), and material rewarding («I give my
child money or a small present when he / she has done something that I am happy
about»).