'shey-you wrote:Definitly a good idea. Start off by giving $1 every day then as he learns to manage the money raise it and pay it every week. On the start of the new year, buy him a 2013 diary and make [ show him ] write every thing he gets and spends in the diary. If it's not written in the diary, deduct it from the next payment. Later in life when he runs a business he will apreaciate what he has learnt from you.
Yes having someone monitor every riel he spends will sure teach him fiscal responsibility! He's 17 not 5, if he's not figured this out yet, then he's a lost cause. Just discreetly slip him $20 every once in a while and tell him not to spend all of it on booze and silly hair cuts.
The only way you'll offend someone in this country by giving them money is if they are of equal or higher status than yourself. Everyone else will accept it respectfully when offered without doing the silly western routine where you pretend that you don't want it, even when you do.