The Spend container holds money for occasional impulse purchases. If our daughter gets the urge for something small when we’re out and about, we front her the money until we can get home and take it out of the Spend container. We don’t have many rules for this money and consider it a kind of mad science experiment. It’s fascinating to see what moves kids to want to buy something once the money is actually their own. They often want random junk, but this is part of the process of letting them practice. After all, how can we teach them to control their impulses until we observe them under
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