‘My daughter wants to spend $400 of her own money on Roblox’

“It’s her money, I have to let her buy it right? I think it’s such a scam but I don’t know how to change her mind,” the worried dad reveals.

Karl’s 12-year-old daughter had been doing chores, saving her birthday money with her eye on a singular goal. 

Maya wanted to buy a special Roblox skin – the headless horseman cosmetic skin bundle – and in Karl’s words, “it’s almost 400 freaking dollars”.

The dad didn’t know what to do.

“It’s such a scam and immoral and gross to me that something like this targeted at kids even exists,” he said in a Reddit post.

“I have talked with her about this multiple times and I cannot change her mind.

“She has $300 saved up from chores/birthday money and is working her **s off doing chores to earn the rest.”

Karl reasoned that on one hand, if she earned the money, she should get to say what she did with the money, but on the other hand, she was a child and didn’t understand the value of money.

“It’s her money, I have to let her buy it right?” he appealed to the Reddit community.

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Maya was desperate to buy the headless horseman cosmetic skin in Roblox. Photo: iStock

Reddit community united on how daughter should spend money

Karl said he could exercise his authority, but he wondered if there was a better way to convince his daughter to save her money, or if he should let her learn from her mistake.

“Obviously I can just say no… The question is whether I let her make the mistake and learn from it (or not) or intervene in what I think is a mistake.”

The community believed that Reddit was creating addictive behaviours in kids.

“This stuff is addictive and she may never learn from it… it could get worse,” one person said. “Grown adults fall trap to this and spend thousands.”

“I let my kid learn a natural consequence with spending $50 on Robux, then when she later saw a few things she wanted in Target, guess who didn’t have the money to buy it,” said another. “If it were $400, that’s when I need to take off my ‘consequences for action hat’ and straight up say no.”

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Many agreed that no was the only answer.

“I’m all for letting kids spend their money on what they want but this would be a hard no from me,” said one person. “$400 for something in a game is absolutely ridiculous.”

Other people suggested Karl try to kelp Maya understand the value of $400.

“Use it as an economics lesson in utility,” one person said. “Show her a few examples of what $400 could buy. Stuff that might interest her. Then let her decide.”

Originally published as ‘My daughter wants to spend $400 of her own money on Roblox’