Do you give your children allowance?
By helper1
@helper1 (765)
Canada
3 responses
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
13 Nov 06
My son is 13 and gets $5.00 a week for doing chores and there is a list hanging on fridge for extra things he can do to earn more money.
@gabby77 (142)
• United States
14 Nov 06
my son is 9. I have a reward chart I purchased from a school fundraiser. There is room for 6 chores and 7 days a week. So 42 places for stars. If he gets 14 stars $1, 28 stars $3, and 42 stars $5. This way he is making a choice on how much allowance he will receive. This chart runs Sun-Sat so he is paid weekly on Tuesdays (my payday). The chores he has aren't hard. Things like take the bathroom trash downstairs, clean room by end of night, do homework (he gets 3 free stars here since only 4 nights of homework), ect. He gets mad some weeks when he only earns $1 or $3 but I use this as a tool to teach him he has control of his behavior. If he wants the full $5 he will complete the chores that are listed each day. I don't nag or remind him these things need to be done. If I do have to nag a star is not given. At first this was a hard concept for him. Now he does his chores daily with no problems. Weeks that he doesnt receive $5 he says, "I will have to make sure I do all my chores next week. I messed up this week". It seems to be working.
@alainnmiog (660)
• United States
14 Nov 06
My kids are 3 years old and 6 years old. They get an allowance if they help with the household chores. I have a chore chart that I change around on a monthly basis. They get a star for each chore they do on a daily basis. For each star they get, they get a nickel. If they don't do a chore on the list for that day, they don't get a star for it. They get paid at the end of the week, which is usually Saturday evening.
