Who is? Ds, fishing cost and pocket money

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Ds (12) gets £10 a week pocket money. Most Saturdays he goes fishing with his grandad and occasionally he goes to a lake which costs £7, this is happening tomorrow.

DH thinks he should pay for it himself this time now he gets regular money, I think we should pay, or at least go halves.

What do you think? :)

Hang on - I'm not the OP... I was basing my expectation of OPs DS paying the Occasional £7 lake fee on it being just that "The occasional lake fee", while parents / GPs are buying the kit, the bait, the rod licence etc.

FWITW my DS gets very low pocket money but he recently won some modest money prizes in competitions he entered, so he currently has cash in hand.

My DS (nearly 12) gets £20 a month (so £5 a week) paid into his bank account.
I pay for his karate -£4 a week plus more for gradings.

Personally I wouldn't ask my DCs to pay for their sports activities (DD does gymnastics, costs about the same and same pocket money ,but weekly)

I'm not rich [hgrin] far from it!

DS has done karate since he was 5 and though he enjoys it, as with most DCs he sometimes needs a shove.

Most sports are taken up with enthusiam at first, then it wanes.
I suppose that's one of the reasons that I'm prepared to pay it. I'm encouraging him to keep it up. (But not forcing him.If he hated it I'd let him stop).

DS is very good at saving though.