what do ya'll think is reasonable amount of allowance for kids?

I have a 9,10 & 16 year old,they aren't given any certain amount a month,they are paid depending on what they do....rooms kept clean,$3.oo a week,dishes,$1.00 a night,pick up after themselves $3.00 a month and so on.....once they get their allowance which usually works out to about $25.oo a month they have to put exactly 1/2 of it into a bank account and the other 1/2 HAS to be spent sensibly.....my 9 year old daughter wanted a phone in her room and she has it,but she has to pay for it too....it's $2.99 plus tax a month so $3.45 goes towards her phone out of her $12.00 that she has left.....it teaches them the benefit of saving money along with responsibility and it does work.....I've been doing this with them since they were 5 and now they tell me when it's time to go to the bank.....I let them do their own banking as well....hope this helps

I think that the 11 year old should get a little more than the 7 rear old. I have a freind that teaches her kids about taxes and tithes. They each get $5 a week and every week 25% goes to pay taxes and they have to take 10% to church to tithe. At the end of the year the kids get their tax money back to buy eachother Christmas presents. Three day a week they do their weekley chores and every month they rotate what they do. I thought this was a great idea. I hope it helps.

when i was watching super nanny she said that her rule was to give allowance by age. so for every year the child is that's how much money he/she would get. 10 years old $10. a week. to me that seems like a lot of money, especially for lower income families. i'm a single mother and i haven't started yet but i think i would do half their age. so 10 years would be $5. i think that's pretty reasonable. it's still $20 a month which is a lot for a young child.