'You made a deal with a TWELVE YEAR OLD for THOUSANDS of DOLLARS?!?': Karen makes daughter pay for half of their swimming pool

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    Cloud - "She no longer wants to uphold her end of the agreement."
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    Font - AITA for asking my daughter to uphold her end of the deal? Honestly, I don't even feel that this situation needs to be on Reddit but my daughter, husband and many of my family members are calling me an shole and I'm really not sure anymore. For context, four years ago, when my daughter was 12, she desperately wanted a pool. She said that all of her friends had pools and she was the only one who didn't have one, plus she loved swimming. She insisted that she would use it daily in the summe
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    Font - My husband and I could afford one, but as I'm sure some of you know, pools are very expensive and neither of us really like swimming so we wanted my daughter to understand the cost she was asking for. We made an agreement that we would install a pool but that once she was old enough to start working, she would pay us back for half of it. She quickly agreed. Well, flash forward to now. She's 16 and just got her first job, and now she wants to save up for a prom dress she really likes. I re
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    Font - Now, she won't speak to me. My husband is agreeing with her, saying that we can't have honestly expected a twelve year old to keep her end of the agreement. For me, this isn't even about money - it's about teaching my young daughter the right morals to live life with. I don't want her to think she can just go around making deals for her benefit and then just not upholding them. AITA?
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    Font - 21 hr. ago edited 11 hr. ago 3 & 9 More HenriettaHiggins You got in a verbal agreement with a 12 year old for thousands of dollars and are now trying to enforce it? Seriously? Four years later. The right morals to live with are that 12 year olds cannot legally enter contracts. That's the moral. YTA. And just.. very very misguided
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    Font - Proud_Pollution5505 20 hr. ago Lol yea a 12 year old cannot comprehend how screwed they are by agreeing to pay back like, what, $20K? That is absurd. 10.7k Reply Share
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    Font - TheSciFiGuy80 21 hr. ago edited 21 hr. ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [46] You made a deal with a TWELVE YEAR OLD for THOUSANDS of DOLLARS?!? Of course YTA. As a parent of FOUR, there are PLENTY of ways to teach our children morals that don't involve forcing a child to pay for a pool in an agreement she made when she was still in 5th or 6th grade... Side question, if you expect her to pay for half of the pool, will she get a cut of the real estate if you ever sell the house? Having a pool increa
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    Font - ReviewOk929 - 21 hr. ago YTA who on earth would make this kind of a deal with a 12 year old? Also who would do this to a 16 year old. Dumb idea to ever think was ever a good thing to do. Reply Share 5.8k
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    Font - Caspian4136 21 hr. ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] YTA At first I thought her end of the deal would be to clean the pool and keep it up, not pay for half of it! Who in their right mind makes a deal like that with a 12 year old?! Unless you're going to give her equity of the house when you sell it in the future, get over yourself with this. My god, this is one of the most ridiculous things I've read in here. 4.8k Reply Share
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    Font - gossy7 21 hr. ago . YTA for allowing a 12 year old to effectively take on thousands of pounds of debt. Reply Share 2.8k
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    Font - furriosity 21 hr. ago YTA. Who makes a financial deal with a 12 year old that they can't possibly understand, much less expect them to start to honor it years later? Reply Share 1.5k ...
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    Font - Sensitive-Whereas574 21 hr. ago YTA that was a ridiculous bargain to strike with a 12 yr old. You understood the value of money and a 12 yr old couldn't possibly. You are a double shole, first for making such an agreement and second for trying to enforce it. 991 Reply Share
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    Font - Daddy_Onion 21 hr. ago Dude... YTA big time. Your husband is right. How in the world can you expect a 12 year old to keep up her end of a deal like that? 865 Reply Share
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    Font - 5footfilly 21 hr. ago Just take half the cost of the pool out of her share of the equity when you sell the house. Oh, she has no ownership stake in the house? Guess she has no ownership stake in the pool then. If you want to pass along good morals to your daughter, don't try to take financial advantage of minors. YTA ↑850 Reply Share
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    Font - Competitive-Bake-103 21 hr. ago YTA. If you didn't want the pool, you should not have gotten the pool. But your 12-year-old wanted one "because all her friends have one". She could have gone swimming at one of her friends' houses. But instead you insisted on a “bargain” with a child. I don't think I have to say what's wrong with this picture, do I? 560 Reply Share ...
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    Font - Thediciplematt 21 hr. ago Commander in Cheeks [203] YTA She's 16. If anything take 20% of her income and put it into an index fund to help her learn how to save not pay yourself back for some pool. You're greedy and it is an odd hill to die on. 333 Reply Share

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