Parents - Bank accounts for your children

[Lopéz]

Hi OcUK, this feels like a real Mumsnet kind of topic.

How old were you when you had your first bank account, and for those of you with kids did you make sure your kids had bank accounts?

What's brought this on is a recent couple of conversations with my sister about my 16 year old nephew, who I was really surprised to find out does not have a bank account, and she's never thought to do it or prompt him to set one up.

AIBU???

 

[Lopéz]

My parents set up Post Office accounts for us all when we were kids and then I think we all set up our own bank accounts when we were old enough to have proper ones. I remember going into the Midland Bank around the corner from the cinema in Harlow when I was about sixteen to open my first real account. I think they called them student accounts back then.


I don't know what this means.

I only know because of memes

My sister also "doesn't know" if he has a passport. Really?

 

[Lopéz]

It's very easy to say, as I don't know them or their circumstances, but they/she sounds pretty irresponsible to me

How can you not know if your kid has a passport?!

This was pretty much my response. Judge away.