I would definitely tie it to the chores. Thats the only way a kid learns that
money doesn’t come free. A friend of mine came up w/a wonderful idea…sure
she heard it from somebody else but I heard it from her…lol anyway, she
would set an amount her child/children would earn say a week and they would
have chores that would need to be done in order to earn that money.
stuff like
taking their dishes from the dinner table was not a chore, that was part of
being a family. anyway, each chore was assigned a monetary value and if that
chore was not completed properly that set amount of money would be deducted
from their total allowence. she said in the beginning there were a couple
weeks where she didn’t have to give out any allowence but they soon learned and
now she gives out full allowences on a regular basis….
nath