SS was describing BM's current financial situation and used an interesting choice of words. Instead of describing BM's job as "her" job or her money as "her" money, he kept saying "our" and "we". Here's what he told us:

He said that "they" had it set up where they would be paid less during the school year (BM is a substitute teacher part time) so that "we" would still continue to receive paychecks over the summer, but "we" aren't getting paid as much as we thought we were going to, so "we're" having to borrow money from people to pay our bills again. This was after he told MIL about BM taking his money out of his coin collection to pay bills.

Does this seem strange to anyone else? Do you think this may be the way that she phrases things to him? It is just odd to me. I am all about financial education of children, but this intimate knowledge of his mother's financial situation, and especially him taking it on as his own problem, is disturbing to me. This does not come from her trying to teach him how to be financially responsible, just from her sharing way too much information with her child and making her problems his problems. If she was using this as a teaching tool I could somewhat understand her sharing SOME of this information with him, but she's not. We are proactive in financial education with our kids (SS is currently reading Rich Dad Poor Dad with me) but we do not go into detail on how much either of us make, when or how our bills get paid, or the amount of money we have in our bank accounts.