stemelbow Posted September 19, 2016 Posted September 19, 2016 Ask me what I thought when I was 15 and it'd be quite a bit different from today. This has to do with age. Go back 10 years ask millennials about gay marriage for instance and you'd get a much lower rate than we see among the same population today. Go back 25 years and ask Gen xers the same thing. You'll get a much lower rate. I'd wager in both cases the rate of current Generation Z kids rate of supporting gay marriage would be much higher than the rate of either of the previous two, if asked when they were 15. Also asking 15 year olds about planned saving and spending habits? come on. How could there be any stock put into this. So last night we all sat around in our house. My 17 year old, who can't hold onto a dollar to save his life, went on and on trying to teach my 7 year old to save his money. So my 17 year old makes a little container with 3 compartments. 1 is for tithing. 1 is for saving. and 1 is for spending. He tells his percentages, which my 7 year old doesn't quite get and moves 10 percent of his money into tithing and 20 percent into saving and says, "there...now you have the rest for spending." If my 17 year old ever saved 20 percent of the money he's gotten for work or odd jobs, he'd be able to pay for his first year of college and a mission by now. My wife and I couldn't stop chucking about how serious he was though.
rodheadlee Posted September 19, 2016 Posted September 19, 2016 1 hour ago, stemelbow said: Ask me what I thought when I was 15 and it'd be quite a bit different from today. This has to do with age. Go back 10 years ask millennials about gay marriage for instance and you'd get a much lower rate than we see among the same population today. Go back 25 years and ask Gen xers the same thing. You'll get a much lower rate. I'd wager in both cases the rate of current Generation Z kids rate of supporting gay marriage would be much higher than the rate of either of the previous two, if asked when they were 15. Also asking 15 year olds about planned saving and spending habits? come on. How could there be any stock put into this. So last night we all sat around in our house. My 17 year old, who can't hold onto a dollar to save his life, went on and on trying to teach my 7 year old to save his money. So my 17 year old makes a little container with 3 compartments. 1 is for tithing. 1 is for saving. and 1 is for spending. He tells his percentages, which my 7 year old doesn't quite get and moves 10 percent of his money into tithing and 20 percent into saving and says, "there...now you have the rest for spending." If my 17 year old ever saved 20 percent of the money he's gotten for work or odd jobs, he'd be able to pay for his first year of college and a mission by now. My wife and I couldn't stop chucking about how serious he was though. It goes back to the generational thing. My wife and I being raised by the Silent generation, she at 17 had already graduated high school early and was manager of a department store section. She married me at 17. By the time I was 19 I had been working for 9 years, from paper routes to gas station jobs to motorcycle shop jobs to drywall finisher. At 19 I was the foreman on major medical center jobs. We were required to save money as children. I was lousy at it and my wife was good at it, we still retain these same traits at 60.
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