A first paycheck looks substantial for roughly two days. Then food, fuel, phone and everything else take their share, and you learn that the number on the slip is not the amount you have, which is a fact somebody in your family has been managing silently your whole life. Watching it drain teaches more than any lecture about money ever could. The lesson is in the speed.

Track where the first one goes, every line of it. Then ask a parent what their version of that list looks like. The comparison will probably change how you ask for things.