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Teenagers, allowances and chores/behaviour

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teenagenonfanclub · 12/07/2019 10:58

Apologies, I know this subject has to been done to death!

Questions I have:
do you expect certain chores to completed?
Is this tied to their allowance?
Is allowance tied to their general behaviour/attitude?

How/do people enforce and structure penalties if expectations aren't met?

OP posts:
Weenurse · 12/07/2019 22:51

Mine got $50 per week and this paid for everything.
Phones, outfits, outings, school lunches if they did not want to take from home. I paid for sport.
Mine helped from an early age as I have always worked.
Cooked from ages 7&8 and helped in kitchen with cleaning etc. Expectation is that we all live here and contribute.
Mine are very good at budgeting as a result.
Some compliance issues as tried to get out of cooking some nights with the expectation that I would just pick it up.
I put this back on them and they either had to swap nights with someone or do a slow cooker.
Good luck

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