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My soon-to-be-2 daughter Ashlynn is quite the spirited little thing these days. She got in the way of me moving the coffee table this morning so I put my hand out and moved her backwards... Her little eyebrows dropped, I got a stern look, and she blurted out "No Push! Time Out!" and then pointed to the time out spot by the wall. All while keeping the stern look. I tried not to laugh, but it was impossible with my wife roaring with laughter from the kitchen...


Did I actually go sit in Time Out?





























No

Couldn't hurt!

Someone seems to think he's above the rules.

One quick throat-punch will straighten her right up! If you need some back-up, just let me know! I got your back dog.

Who are we kidding, T? You know you did something that deserves a time-out, if not this, then something else....right?...right?

Running over her little toes with the coffee table would have gotten me a longer Time Out

T-Bone wrote:Running over her little toes with the coffee table would have gotten me a longer Time Out

In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say.

Jubilee wrote:

T-Bone wrote:Running over her little toes with the coffee table would have gotten me a longer Time Out

In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say.

We won't talk money... This little girl already knows money. She gets all daddy's change at the end of the day. I purposly don't use change at the stores. I always round up to the next dollar to get change back. At the end off the day, I'll take my change out and jingle it in my hand. She'll run to me saying MONEY MONEY!!! We then have the ritual of going upstairs to the jug (a converted trail mix container), where I put the money on the floor, and ask her to pick out a specific coin. I'll ask for a penny or dime, etc.. She finds one of what I ask for and I have her repeat the coin I ask for and then she can put it in the slot on the jug. She's pretty good at it for not even being 2 yet. We then put both our hands on the jug and "Shake It Up", and then put it back on the shelf It all goes into her savings account, which I started the day she was born

T-Bone wrote:

Jubilee wrote:

T-Bone wrote:Running over her little toes with the coffee table would have gotten me a longer Time Out

In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say.

We won't talk money... This little girl already knows money. She gets all daddy's change at the end of the day. I purposly don't use change at the stores. I always round up to the next dollar to get change back. At the end off the day, I'll take my change out and jingle it in my hand. She'll run to me saying MONEY MONEY!!! We then have the ritual of going upstairs to the jug (a converted trail mix container), where I put the money on the floor, and ask her to pick out a specific coin. I'll ask for a penny or dime, etc.. She finds one of what I ask for and I have her repeat the coin I ask for and then she can put it in the slot on the jug. She's pretty good at it for not even being 2 yet. We then put both our hands on the jug and "Shake It Up", and then put it back on the shelf It all goes into her savings account, which I started the day she was born

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, you are so cute! I couldn't give a dad like that time out! I can hear the love you have for her! You make a great daddy! Girls need their daddy's!

With college costing what it does these days, any little bit helps. I hope to kinda train her to save money by doing this. She can have an allowance which will be hers, but this change will go into a different account which she won't get at. When I started working when I was 15, my parents made me put half of my check into savings. It helped me buy my first car. It works and I plan on carrying on that with my daughter. She will not get everything handed to her. Kids will respect stuff more when it's their own work going into earning it.

T-Bone wrote:With college costing what it does these days, any little bit helps. I hope to kinda train her to save money by doing this. She can have an allowance which will be hers, but this change will go into a different account which she won't get at. When I started working when I was 15, my parents made me put half of my check into savings. It helped me buy my first car. It works and I plan on carrying on that with my daughter. She will not get everything handed to her. Kids will respect stuff more when it's their own work going into earning it.

Amen! Your a good daddy....................

T-Bone wrote:My soon-to-be-2 daughter Ashlynn is quite the spirited little thing these days. She got in the way of me moving the coffee table this morning so I put my hand out and moved her backwards... Her little eyebrows dropped, I got a stern look, and she blurted out "No Push! Time Out!" and then pointed to the time out spot by the wall. All while keeping the stern look. I tried not to laugh, but it was impossible with my wife roaring with laughter from the kitchen...


Did I actually go sit in Time Out?


No

That's adorable!

I had to Google what "Time Out" was.
Trippy concept.

T the Daddy knows "You do the crime, you do the time". get your butt over there mister.

T-Bone wrote:With college costing what it does these days, any little bit helps. I hope to kinda train her to save money by doing this. She can have an allowance which will be hers, but this change will go into a different account which she won't get at. When I started working when I was 15, my parents made me put half of my check into savings. It helped me buy my first car. It works and I plan on carrying on that with my daughter. She will not get everything handed to her. Kids will respect stuff more when it's their own work going into earning it.

I still remember the Easter before I turned three, going to my mother's work picnic, and there was a game they played where all the kids got into a bunch, had to close their eyes, and a whole lot of coins got scattered around that we got to hunt for. I very proudly showed everyone that I had seven cents, and then Mamma explained that this one was worth ten cents and that one was worth 2 cents and all together I had something like 25 or 30 cents. The concept that I could have more money than the number of coins was just so amazing! The first thing I did when we got home was call my Daddy to tell him how I had seven cents but it was more than seven it was 25 and explained to him how money worked. He drove straight over and took me right out and bought me a china piggy bank. He told me that every weekend that he had me, he would give me 50 cents (the wealth!!!!) to put in my piggy bank, and when I was five he would get me a bank account. I felt so grown up - I had no idea what a bank account was, just that grown ups had them.

I've never forgotten the routine of getting my coins to put in my china pig - or the day my Daddy picked me up at lunchtime from school, we emptied "Miss Moneypiggy" and I got my very own bank book to my very own bank account. Even now, I keep a 'piggy bank' jar to drop money in. At the end of the pay week, I transfer everything left in my ordinary account into my savings account, and I empty my purse into my 'piggy bank'. Even when I've been stoney broke, at the very least 50 cents got put into the jar.

T-Bone - your little girl is going to remember this forever. Good going, T-Daddy!

G.I.Jim wrote:One quick throat-punch will straighten her right up! If you need some back-up, just let me know! I got your back dog.

Shit sarge,you ld make drop down and give you 50 push ups,and 3 days of KP

T-Bone wrote:With college costing what it does these days, any little bit helps. I hope to kinda train her to save money by doing this. She can have an allowance which will be hers, but this change will go into a different account which she won't get at. When I started working when I was 15, my parents made me put half of my check into savings. It helped me buy my first car. It works and I plan on carrying on that with my daughter. She will not get everything handed to her. Kids will respect stuff more when it's their own work going into earning it.

That is very true & good for you for doing that.I bet she is a real cutie T.Bone

T-Bone wrote:With college costing what it does these days, any little bit helps. I hope to kinda train her to save money by doing this. She can have an allowance which will be hers, but this change will go into a different account which she won't get at. When I started working when I was 15, my parents made me put half of my check into savings. It helped me buy my first car. It works and I plan on carrying on that with my daughter. She will not get everything handed to her. Kids will respect stuff more when it's their own work going into earning it.

You're a very good daddy, T. These are great plans. I've always had these same ideas as well.