Mommy, I cleaned my room, give me my $5, please!

Allowance, against it or for it?

  • For it

    Votes: 28 73.7%

  • Against it

    Votes: 10 26.3%
  • Total voters
    38

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    At least he said please

    I couldn't decide whether this was a OC or OV topic. >_<

    We all know what allowance is. Our parents give/gave it to some of us whenever we did a chore or something. And our income varied. But for some of us, we didn't even get allowance like me. My parents thought that you shouldn't get money for something that your supposed to do anyway. And as a twerp, that made no sense to me, and I always cried and begged for money. But now, I see that made total sense.

    What are your thoughts on allowance




    Again, sorry if this is an OV topic. >_>
     
    I think it's stupid to get paid for something you should be doing in the first place.
    You eat off the plates, of course you better clean them.
    You live in your room for free, so you deserve to clean it up when parents ask you to.
    Why in the world should you get paid for doing what you owe back to your parents :|


    For some, I guess it teaches you the value of a dollar, but for those who just want money, it's ridiculous.
     
    As much as I want money for cleaning my room, I shouldn't get it. That isn't the point of getting my room clean. The point is, actually cleaning it. The clean space itself should be enough for everyone. Of course, some people need that extra incentive of money to start doing anything... I used to only clean it for money... but now I enjoy it being clean... so yeah. I do guess that there are some things you should be paid for such as mowing the lawn, that is if your dad or whoever usually does it.
     
    I never got an allowance at all. Well, I never really had to do anything around the house anyway. For one thing, I always did whatever I needed to do to keep things clean. I shared a room with my brother, so he had to clean it up because I was never even in there and he make it messy all the time. He was always the bad one, so part of his discipline was doing the share of the chores around the house. I'm a neat person, so I never made messes anyway. Straight A student who doesn't start arguments(often) and cleans up after himself. My parents never wanted to bother me to do chores or anything like that.
     
    I got paid for babysitting my neighbor, but I wouldn't really consider that an allowance. I don't think kids should be paid for doing chores, but they should at least be rewarded in some way so they understand that making a habit out of things like cleaning is good. It doesn't have to be money but like...ice cream at the end of the week or something.
    But uh, for my chores at home, I didn't get an allowance, though my stepbrother did. I don't really like talking about that though.
     
    My parents never gave me an allowance until I was 18, and they did that only to convince me to not get a job (instead, work harder in college). I could pretty much ask them for anything, so long as I wasn't going overboard, obviously.

    I don't see the point, really. Your kids should be raised to be responsible for things and not to only do basic duties because of a reward. Maybe you can offer a treat for odd-jobs such as moving, but even in those cases I wouldn't give money to them.
     
    I've never gotten an allowance from my parents, and I'm okay with it. I mean, they give me food, a place to sleep, etc. They give me so much already, why should I be greedy and ask for more? I think it's also good that they don't give me money, because it teaches me to save what I have.
     
    I think it's ridiculous. I know someone who gives their kid money to brush their hair! They refuse to do it otherwise. It's so bratty.

    Though I will admit, my parents did used to reward me for good grades in school...even though that was something I was supposed to do.
     
    My grandparents allow me a monthly allowance for keeping good grades at school. I never really got an allowance during my early ages, or cared enough since my dad pays for anything reasonable I want XD. I get a few pays for extra work at home, which is not very often since we have a housekeeper.

    And I am in agreement with my current way of allowances. School grades are a responsibility, and responsibility should be rewarded for being kept up.

    And about the default works you should be doing anyways, I actually think some reward for that is reasonable because it teaches kids to work and then be responsible. I wouldn't see it as a pay, but a fishing lure to responsibility.
     
    My parents never gave me an allowance. Although sometimes when they asked me to do something rather big like scrub all the cabinets in the house with a toothbrush I was given some money. Which yes I actually had to do that a few times.

    I think for the most part children shouldn't be payed to do chores. It's something that your parents should teach you to do without pay. At the same time I also think it could possibly teach a child the value of a dollar. I guess I don't mind it too much as long as the pay is reasonable and you're doing it to teach them, not to just get them to do it. I say a reasonable pay because I knew too many kids my age who were payed 20 dollars just for cleaning their room.
     
    AdvancedK47 said:
    My grandparents allow me a monthly allowance for keeping good grades at school. I never really got an allowance during my early ages, or cared enough since my dad pays for anything reasonable I want XD. I get a few pays for extra work at home, which is not very often since we have a housekeeper.

    And I am in agreement with my current way of allowances. School grades are a responsibility, and responsibility should be rewarded for being kept up.

    And about the default works you should be doing anyways, I actually think some reward for that is reasonable because it teaches kids to work and then be responsible. I wouldn't see it as a pay, but a fishing lure to responsibility.
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    Whilst I do agree with some of that, it often leads to people only wanting to do stuff for the reward.
     
    I have an irregularly-received allowance (thanks mom for keeping my card paid for) and I have to keep up with chores or I don't get it, but anything beyond that I have to work for. I think it works. It's enough to save with over time, but it's not enough that it feels that I'm just getting money handed to me. Even though, essentially, I am. >.<
     
    I think allowance is a good thing in most cases, as long as it's earned. Having an allowance as a kid definitely taught me how money should be spent. I learned from my money-spending mistakes, which ultimately helped me understand the "value of the dollar," as they say. Now I make $10 an hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week at my summer job and I'm still very careful with how I spend it - I'm proud of that, and having allowance definitely helped lead me to that.
     
    Chibi-chan said:
    For some, I guess it teaches you the value of a dollar,
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    ^This.

    For kids pre-14 or something, yeah, it's cool. Teaches them to work hard, and everyone responds well to rewards. It helps condition them to want to keep stuff clean.

    But eventually they should just want to clean for the sake of cleaning; there's a point when you're just too old for that mess.
     
    T3h Kaiser said:
    For kids pre-14 or something, yeah, it's cool. Teaches them to work hard, and everyone responds well to rewards. It helps condition them to want to keep stuff clean.

    But eventually they should just want to clean for the sake of cleaning; there's a point when you're just too old for that mess.
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    I agree with this. Allowance is a good tool for teaching kids to spend money wisely by giving them a set amount on a pre-defined basis, and having them figure out over time how to maximize its use. There is a point, though, when the kid needs to be weaned off of allowance and just do the work by itself, and if they want money, get a job.

    I had allowance up to a certain point (too long ago to remember, so it was probably in the preteen/early teen years), and to be honest, without it I'd know even less about the value of money than I do. At least I don't buy pointless things like makeup, tons of clothes/accessories, or have expensive hobbies like trading cards or pay-to-play online games. I also buy video games rather rarely, like maybe two or three times in a year maximum.
     
    I actually think that has it's good effects and bad effects.
    Some of the good effects include, teaching kids about the value of a dollar. In what I mean by that is;is that it teaches kids how to save and spend money wisely and that if you work for stuff you will be rewarded even if it is little. Because these days, you don't get anything for free.

    Some of the bad effects include; that things like cleaning your room, washing the dishes and whatnot is somehting you should be doing on a regular basis. Why get rewarded if you are doing somehting you should and need to do?
     
    I don't think it makes a difference either way, it's up to people to see the benefits of doing these things themselves, not of what is or is not rewarded for its doing.
     
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