Year 7 pocket money

[neverstophopping]

DD is going into senior school in September, so going on 12.

At the moment she gets £5 a week and that covers wandering round the corner to get sweets etc with her friends but her social life is starting to pick up already (eek) so I'm getting constant 'please can I have' as they want to do things.

We have a cleaner twice a week so there's no real jobs in the house I ask her to do, bar laying the table and keeping her room tidy, so this is pocket money not earning on chores IYSWIM.

How much should I be giving her a week/month to allow her to realistically budget without needing me to top up.

I want to teach her to manage money and don't want to be flush, or tight.

She's my eldest so this is uncharted territory for me!

@JellyBabiesFan

You're not teaching them to spend it. You're teaching them to save and manage it. They get to buy themselves a treat in the week, or save up long term to buy something bigger but they must also put money aside in their savings.

@JellyBabiesFan

Why the need to give kids £10 a week sort of money? What exactly are they buying?

I remember being in my early and even mid teens and getting £2 a week. I did not even particulary spend that.

My DS buys roblox stuff. And stuffed toy cats. Although he does a good line in telling me he wishes to faithfully save his pocket money and thinks it would be best if I bought him roblox stuff and stuffed toy cats instead.

@JellyBabiesFan

Why the need to give kids £10 a week sort of money? What exactly are they buying?

I remember being in my early and even mid teens and getting £2 a week. I did not even particulary spend that.

Well at 11/12 it was more like £5 per week but out of that came things like:

Bus fayre into town to meet up with friends at the weekend.

Macdonalds for lunch
Comics (dd is into Marvel & DC & ds was into Manga)
Books
Sweets
Soft toys (currently octopi!)
The odd cinema visit or Laser Tag visit.

Depends what she will be spending it on.

What would she be doing with friends in yr7? Cinema and things like that are expensive. Would it cover non-uniform clothing? I think probably that should still be paid for on an as and when basic so you can still have some influence on what's suitable.

Ballpark figure, £45 per month. I'd ask for one constant chore for that as well, for example watering your plant pots every evening throughout summer or some ironing. Nothing heavy but something.

I built up money for teen years so one has a few 100 already to draw on however I've not been able to top that up recently.

She does so well at school aside from one weekly job she does I'm not sure what else I can give her two raise pocket money.
The youngest struggle at school so I give her ££ when she's done well with her tutors.

I topped up 30 a month and that built to about 600 as she didn't spend.

Youngest gets money for her on line games about 6 a week?