Do you believe in allownaces? Did you get an allowance for helping at home?

My allowance wouldn't have paid me for all the chores which I had to do when I was a kid. I just got some pocket money on a Sunday and I usually headed straight to the sweet shop to spend. When I was in my teens I got a substantial increase in my pocket money, whether of not I did any chores. I used this to go to local dances and the cinema. I didn't give my children an allowance. I just gave them money whenever they needed it or if they were going to the shops, I would make sure that they had money to buy magazines or sweets. I think children these days have more than enough pocket money and most of them don't spend it sensibly.

Making children work for money is far better for them all round if they have to work for it, rather than giving it to them on a plate, they learn the value of money more and appreciate that hard work equals money. If children are given it without working for it they come to expect it and take it for granted, so it teaches children well. When I was a child I got pocket money but I had to do chores to get it which I didn't mind doing because I got rewarded. Children of today get far too much without having to lift a finger which is wrong, but that's just my opinion.