So today’s the day for barnbidrag<\/i> (monthly child allowance from the government — all families with children receive this stipend, regardless of their income), which means that it’s also allowance day for Lydia. It’s come to my attention recently that there’s a fairly considerable disparity between Lydia’s allowance and her peers’ allowances, and I’m a little uncomfortable about that. It turns out that most of Lydia’s friends get a weekly allowance of 20kr (about two dollars) and that they have to buy their own Saturday candy (a venerable Swedish tradition) out of this money. Lydia, on the other hand, has a monthly allowance of 150kr (about fifteen or twenty dollars, depending on exchange rates), and we buy her candy for her. I’m not quite sure what, if anything, I should do about this. It doesn’t seem fair to cut her allowance by more than half (once candy-buying is factored in) in some sort of reverse “keeping up with the Joneses” maneuver, but I don’t want to make a conspicuous consumer out of my daughter, either. I guess maybe I just won’t do anything except be a little wiser when it comes to setting allowances in the future.<\/p>\n
Since it is a payday of sorts, I’m trying to talk Olof into taking a couple of hours off and driving to town with me to do some grocery shopping. It’s a nice day and I’d like to get out and about, especially since it’s supposed to be nasty for several days starting tomorrow. Also, it’s nice to go grocery shopping without Lydia wanting to load up the cart with chips and cookies and Coke and whatnot. She doesn’t nag, exactly–that is, one “no” usually suffices, but it’s one “no” per item<\/i> rather than one all-encompassing “no” that she requires–but it’s nice to avoiding the asking altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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