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The amounts are not totally scientific, but I guess the rationale in my mind is that making the lunch is more of a luxury for me than doing homework. But making sure that she gets the homework done right away is a bit of a luxury, so that's why she it's a "chore" for her.
That's cool. I should have specified that I'm actually more OK with her watching TV if we're watching TV. I consider that part of family time, since we end up talking to each other the whole time. It's really more when she's on the Kindle or Touch doing things that bother me after a long period of time.
We let them have one time a day (20 minutes) during the week.
I am waaaaaaayyyyyyyyy overpaying my wife.Long Ball Larry said:
Man, I wish my oldest gave a crap about .60/week. I tried something where she could earn $10/week when she was 6 and she lost interest after a few weeks.
Serious question. What can a kid get for $.60 in this day and age? I mean, I can't think of a single thing a kid could purchase nowadays for $.60. Other than two quarters and a dime.
Very little during the week best case scenario, but if my wife and/or I are tired, they'll get to use it some. That's at home. They do have about a 20 minute/each way drive to school so they can use it there. Weekend, they use it a ton. My oldest reads on it as well, but there is a lot of game playing and tv watching. Its miserable outside so its not easy filling in a 13 hour day with other stuff.
Was thinking the same thing. Took my kids to the lego movie yesterday. They wanted to play some games afterwards, but everything was $2 or more. Hell no.
almost four year old gets a half hour on the ipad during the day if all of his messes are clean, he wasn't difficult eating (constant problem), and there aren't any melt downs. Same deal at night. He gets shows in the morning and sometimes a movie in the afternoon. We will also turn on a show for him while we get dinner ready.
weeds, mowing the lawn, shoveling, leaves, scrubbing the deck...still working on my list but we plan to do the same when our oldest gets to be 8 or so.
In some regards yes. In others, no. I never had homework when I was in 1st grade. My kid does way more school work and unassigned reading than I ever did.Kids have it easy these days. My allowance as a kid was to not get beat with a belt.
Well, if they save it for about 14 weeks, maybe they can get a ticket to the matinee.
It depends. They hang to to their money for awhile. They are also getting birthday and Christmas money also that they save. Plus, I give them additional chores where they can make money. For example, they both earned $10 to move a cord of firewood to the backyard before winter.
Well, us poor folk can't afford the $100 a month, mainly because we use all that extra money on things for the kids like food, shelter, utility bills and the like.
Lol, if you've read any of my posts you'd realize I'm probably one of the most broke paycheck to paycheck people on this board. I've heard alot of people say they can't afford something, but usually it turns out that in reality they aren't willing to sacrifice some things to be able to do it. Maybe I'm wrong and you've cut your budget to the bone, but in my experience few people actually do. My cell phone is a prepaid Nokia that can only make phone calls, it costs $7 a month. I drive a 9 year old vehicle with 145,000 miles on it because it's paid off. Our cable costs $25, the cheapest basic cable package our provider offers. We save about $30 - $50 a week on groceries by clipping coupons. You in the same boat?
Too true. Saturday morning chores sucked. And we got paid a pittance. I'm talking dusting, vacuuming, bathrooms, garbage, sweeping, f'n everything. Now i have two stepdaughters and I still do f'n everything. I got screwed all the way around on this crap.Kids have it easy these days. My allowance as a kid was to not get beat with a belt.
or they can go above and beyond and we have a sheet printed out of extra stuff that can be done on occasion and the value associated with it. This is not a recurring/weekly thing, just when stuff needs to get done. I guess I've always felt that an allowance was counter productive and caused more problems than it was actually worth. I think our kids primary job should be school. Oh, and we do pay/reward for good grades.
Statcruncher said:
We just basically used it as another way to spend their money. The way we looked at it was this: kids learn a lot of what they learn from their parents. We donate when we can to various causes, so we are basically teaching them how to do it on their own and also that it DOES come out of what they earn.I do like the idea of children donating a portion of their money and will try to think of a way to incorporate that into their thinking, although forced donating to me, defeats the purpose and the reason for the donation. Will need to put more thought into that.
Most kids starting out with cash in their pocket will spend it like that, I agree. But keeping them from being able to spend it on useless crap IMO kind of stunts their appreciation of money. Sure, they still have the money, but they still want the stuff and haven't been able to equate it to dollars. Until they are the ones who make the decision that the useless crap isn't worth the money they really haven't learned anything.
But they'd have to give 10% of the gum away and hide another 30% of it in their sock drawer for later.
