What's the cost?

Both of my boys had been spouting off  about all the things they want to have bought for them buy.

I finally came to my senses and told them:

"Make a list of the top three things that you want.  Write the cost of each one next to it.  I will pay for half, and you will be responsible for the other half.  At the bottom of the paper, write how you will devise a plan to earn your share of the money."

This was River's list:

Crossfit Traing Classes : $60/month

New Phone:  $100

Freedom:  PRICELESS

**Curfews and freedoms have been the biggest topic lately between River and me.  It's a tug-of-war. I only know to make the rules by using my gut instinct.  But then my gut instinct tells me that my gut instinct is constantly nauseous and confused.  Letting Riv prove trust and learn his own way, has a fine line next to it.  The other side of that line is that road that leads to never getting them back under your reign again.

 I will take these teen years of him feeling smothered and pissed at his parents; rather than hate us as an adult for not protecting his adolescence.