Aloha Fridays are brought to you by Kailani from An Island Life. Over there in Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that they take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So Kailani thought that on Fridays she would take it easy on posting, too. So, for Aloha Friday, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Answer my question and put one of your own up on your blog. Link up and check out other blogs that participate at An Island Life.
I want to know what everyone thinks about allowances. At what age do you think kids should start getting an allowance? Or do you think they should just earn money based on household chores and what not?
This is a huge topic of conversation over here because Oscar has been straight up telling me, make that ordering me, to buy him a new Pokemon book and game he saw at Best Buy. We keep telling him that he can wait for his birthday or Christmas. Today I gave him the option to earn money towards the game. I paid him $2 to clean up after his little brother, picking up the mass chaos of toys that the baby had strewn about the room. I made sure that he knew that this only applied to cleaning up after others, not himself. Still feeling this whole chores for cash vs. allowance thing out. He is only 6.5 years old so I'm a little caught off guard here, lol!
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Here's my aloha friday question:
http://www.afrugalfriend.net/2010/03/aloha-friday-and-the-oscar-goes-to/
Have a great weekend!
Happy Friday and here is my Aloha !!
So I think I want to give my girls allowance for doing chores. Yes I want them to have the attitude that they are doing it for family, but I also want them to know what it's like to earn money and save up for what they want so it's not a big deal when they're on their own. In other words, I'll try to do the opposite and see what happens.
Have a great Friday!
http://harrietandfriends.com/2010/03/are-you-happy-i-am-i-got-a-new-iphone/
Need to do something soon.
Happy Friday!!
I never got an allowance when I was a kid and I actually appreciated it...
My husband and I have been talking about it, but not too seriously since our child is only 2. We're thinking we're going to do a small allowance for EXTRA jobs that are not weekly household chores....enough to teach the value of earning, saving, spending responsibly and to reward her. We'll teach her that 'chores' should be done without pay though.
~melody~
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