Living on a budget

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Quit being so nice and feeling guilty for other people’s actions. Your job isn’t to make your kids like you, it’s to make good adults of them. Easier said than done but your kids will be better for it.

Serve nutritious meals that are within a budget that allows you to get snacks. If the kids don’t like it then they don’t have to eat it. Hunger will overcome pickiness long before it hurts them.

As for the “I needs”, no they don’t, they need what you’re already giving them — food, shelter, love, etc. Just tell them no you’re not buying it, they better save their money for those kind of things if they really “need” them. Again, they’ll be better for it.

No doubt you’ll go through a period where your kids think you are a horrible witch for changing the rules on them but they’ll adjust and learn that life isn’t fair. Probably the most
important lesson they’ll ever learn. Lori.

sbjmom2002 wrote: I am a single mom of 3. I can feed my family my family on $200 a
month. But it is hard.

I started too late. All of my kids are picky
eaters and don’t seem to like the same foods. Another problem I am
having is that while we have plenty of food for meals there aren’t any
snacks.

Any suggestions?

Another budget issue. I have always felt
guilty that my kids father is
not in thier life. So I try to make up for it, this has caused me to
go into debt.

Now my kids seem to expect things, I try to tell them
that things have to change. They smile say “Okay” and in the next
breath are telling me about the latest gadget they can’t live without.
Any suggestions on how to really get through?

Thanks,
Michele

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