Do Your Kids Get a Better Rise than You?
There’s a great article in how to explain the concept of money to your kids on the FQ magazine website, over here in the UK.
It explains how children’s average pocket money (allowance) rose by 35 percent in one year, between 2004 and 2005. Would you say no to a 35 percent rise at work. Would your boss laugh you right out of the office???
What do your kids do to get their allowance. Do they have to do chores? Get good grades?
Do you use their allowance as a discipline tool? What if they don’t do their chores?
I think that you should make their allowance just enough so they can save for what they want. If its too much, and you also sub them too often, they might be unable to cut back when they have to control their own finances when they move out on their own. They should also learn to make the most of what they’ve got. If they have some old toys or playstation games, either donate them to charity of sell them on something like ebay, and give them to proceeds to put towards something they want.
As well as teaching the value of the items they have, it also helps to control the clutter in the home.
Read more of the article here.
allowance, fatherhood, pocket money, chores, discipline
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