Why don't these kids appreciate the value of money?

It is really a surprising incident.the person who earn can better understand the worth of money.these teenagers are just waste the hard earned money of their parents.really surprising some people work so hard to earn some cents and this girl is throwing money uselessly.

That reflects where she comes from. Perhaps her parents do not value money and she gets it the moment she asks for it or may be even before. It is the upbringing that finally shapes a person's character and this case is ample proof of that.

I honestly don't pick up change when I drop it... Unless its a quarter of course! I can't let those go to waste! haha Its not that I don't appreciate the value of money - its more that I'm lazy... that and I just got fake nails and its darn near impossible to pick change up off the floor with these things. I'm very thankful when my 3 year old goes with me... she picks up ALL money - and that's just fine with me b/c it all goes in her piggy bank... whether I dropped it or not. However, if someone told me I dropped change, I don't think I'd every say "i don't care. Its useless". I'd say something more like, "I can't pick it up with these things (my nails) anyway, so if you want it, its yours" kind of thing... I guess it still doesn't make it right. Maybe she's a snobbo little girl who has everything handed to her... or maybe she's just lazy like me :) Either way - her money wasted is another man's treasure! Let her throw it around if it'll make someone else happy :) She'd probably just blow it on shoes anyway! haha

I think parents should also teach their children the value of money and not just give them their pocket money. They are easy money for the children, so, when one change dropped, it means nothing because they could get another from their parents. That doesn't mean they have to work to understand all this, but I guess they will eventually learn how hard it is to earn and most importantly, to save money in the situations where the parents have stopped their allowances or cut the expenses or when they want to buy something, but the parents asked them to use their own money etc.

It's really true that most of the kids today they are acting like that. They don't know the real value of the money. Anyways it's the responsibility of the parents to teach them the value of money. If the parents fail to instruct them the real value of money that will be happen to most of our kids today. Education is still the key role in improving the behavior of the kids today.

I think this kind of people care for or love money but what they really love is big money. They don't understand what is money and they don't know how to make money. They just never know the value of money. They just know hot to spend it. In my opinion, a person who don't respect little money will never make big money.

Wow, saizo, it sounds bad! But we have to confess it's more common these days. There are also many teenagers like this in China. They get money from family directly instead of earning. Even if their families are not rich, parents or grandparents will try the best to satisfy them. So they don't know how hard to earn even one yuan. They always waste money here and there, and spend money easily. I really worry about it.It's the time we must do something to stop it.

Hi, saizeo, I also met this kind of condition before. Maybe like you said, they do not know how hard it is to earn money themselves. Yes, you are right, she is a teenage girl, all her money comes from her parents, maybe she have a wealthy family, or maybe she is a "princess"in her family. Anyway, it is the business of her family, they should show good education to her. www.iduai.com

kicking money without respect! gosh one day she will learn it is not easy to earn even a single penny, how could she have done something like that, i have never heard of anyone being so careless with money, i guess she was trying to show that she is rich and all and that small change don't matter much to her, wait let her grow older and she will then realize how valuable is even the smallest amount of money... that was so ridiculous of her!

I have met such a situation before for many times. In fact, it is very common that children don't appreciate the value of money in a so called society. As you have said above, the reason why she kicked the change is just because that they don't know how hard it is to earn money themselves. Yes, until now, she much have not appreciate the value of money. Sometimes, it is useful for children if they don't lay too much emphasis on money. But in some situations, just like you have mentioned above, it is very important to let these children realize the importance of money. In total, it is very important to help these kids to adopt a correct attitude towards the money.

Hi Saizo, I too have seen such incidents. I think it is the fault of the parents. Had they taught her the value of money, she wouldn't have done this is what my opinion is. Many parents give lots of money to their children without even teaching them the value of money. People who doesn't respect money will not make big money. She might learn the importance of money once she starts to earn the money by herself.

I guess she'll learn it by the time she'll have to work for it. I never received money from my parents and I was really angry with them because I saw my friends getting money, but afterall, I see how spoiled they were and they have become, how to say...time to cut that. They don't have an idea because it's not them earning the money.

I had also experienced this kind of thing ,i think is is because they never suffer from poor.They can't know how difficult to make monney .In their eyes ,money is not something special,just like a piece of paper

Not only does she not appreciate it, but that seemed rather rude. My kid is only 7 and we are trying to teach her that every cent counts. Not doing so well at it so far, because she usually gets for everything she asks for. Big mistake on our part, and we know it. But yet we keep doing it. I put all the blame in her not understanding it's true value on us. Hopefully in time she will realize just how hard it is to come by.

well, i see that a lot as well in my workplace... it is very sad because they don't understand that money had to be earned by hard work and sweat... they are still living by their parents' money... so that's why they don't really care... but once they start to have to earn money themselves, i'm very sure that their attitude will change (hopefully)... take care and have a nice day...

saizo6 hi she was probably from a fairly well to do family' and spoiled rotten. she never had to work for money so she has no idea of the value of what she kicked away at all. I went back to the University of California at Irvine to get my BA and was surprised to find the callous indifference to 'money by some of the wealthy girls there. one mislaid her purse and I took it to the dean who gave it b ack to me,take it you need it worse than she does.she belongs to the Irvine family.She took out thirty dollars from that purse and handed it to me 'and kept the purse to give back to miss got rocks. The dean really was not ethical but I did need the money so I took it and spent it wisely.the irvine family by the way were extremely wealthy a nd owned most of Orange county.

She might have a gripe about the person her money really belongs to or maybe she has a serious gripe about the world she lives in and its over-emphasis on money. I can understand something like that. She's angry and so she kicks the change.

I see that in adults a lot too and it never fails to shock me. I think that when a kid is given everything without having to earn it, or the money for it, they do not appreciate it as much as they would if they had to earn it themselves. My kids all used to break everything that they were given until they started earning their own money and had to start buying things for themselves. Now, they are less likely to break things and more likely to appreciate what they have. I have also taught them that when they do have money, they have to buy things that are needed before they buy things that they simply want. For example, my 9 year old has a habit of chwing on his shirts, so when he had all of his shirt collars ruined and needed nice shirts, because he ruined what I had bought for him, he had to buy his own new ones before he was able to buy a new toy. I think that if more parents did things like this, kids would be less wasteful and more appreciative of what they are given.

Tacky comment from the junior psychologist in the back row..Its something I've been calling Welfare Instinct for a lot of years now..the notion that nothing need be earned as it is already deserved. I think it has a lot to do with all this constitutional krap that's been going on in this country over the last few decades. Its a 'social' attitude NOT categorically oriented where folks focus on the rewards without considering the need for responsibility. Where I work there are kids (some as old as their 30's) who honestly believe that the check on payday is too little for the effort they put in just to show up. They deserve so much for so little! And its reinforced, I believe, by all this politcal correctedness/tolerance thinking that allows for such shoddy social consciousness, total lack of responsibility, total lack of respect for the folks who (are expected to) provide for them and total lack of respect for the things provided to them. I'm getting down off my soapbox now, but I ain't going away.. Enjoy!

It's sad that some people don't really appreciate the true value of money these days, whether the money came from parents who worked and toiled hard or a self-earned money, it's still money as you said and right now amidst the global crisis, money is so important especially here in my country so that's why people here are really trying to save as much because we never know what emergency situations will arise and need for money will be imminent.