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Paying kids for chores

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Popihj · 27/11/2024 11:41

What's you take on this and what is your logic around it? Currently we give our primary aged DCs pocket money weekly but their friends get paid to do chores - ending up with more money on a weekly basis. Kids are still KS1 so most of the tasks are around self care, homework and getting ready. I've always felt that kids should just do those things as a matter of course but on the other hand, I guess at work we mostly do things because of the wages. Which system do you have and why?

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Catza · 27/11/2024 11:45

Kids are not at work. They are participating in normal household activities which is a responsibility of everyone living in the house. Paying for chores is reinforcing the idea that one should only do them if there is a personal benefit of doing so and that chores are "mum's work".
Paying for getting dressed and brushing teeth? For flushing the loo? Where does it end?