Money & Fees
Raising Children Who Aren't Entitled
Entitlement is usually a household design problem rather than a character flaw. What actually produces gratitude — and what produces resentment instead.
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Money, Fees & Provision
School fees are the most universal stressor in Kenyan family life and one of the least discussed as a parenting subject.
School fees are the most universal stressor in Kenyan family life. They are also one of the least discussed as a parenting subject.
There is plenty of information about the logistics — bursary applications, NG-CDF, county funds, hidden costs, which forms and when. That material is genuinely useful and we link to it where it helps.
What almost nobody writes about is the conversation. Whether to tell your teenager the family is struggling. What it does to a fifteen-year-old to know, and what it does to them to sense it but not be told. How to raise a child who is not entitled in a school environment where entitlement is the visible norm. How to hold onto faith about provision when the term starts on Monday and the balance is not there.
These are values questions dressed as financial ones, which is exactly the territory TCN works in.
We try to be practical without being naive. Prayer and a payment plan are not alternatives to each other. And a teenager who is brought into the truth of the household’s situation, at an age-appropriate level and without being made responsible for it, usually rises to it better than parents expect.
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