Cost of living and planning for a special holiday next year means we don’t have as much spare cash at the moment.
We have a big family: DC4 (YR), SC11 (Y6), SC10 (Y5) and SC9 (Y4). We have SC every other weekend and holidays. We all enjoy going on family days out but they inevitably end up in a gift shop with four kids whining for tat, same for supermarkets, fairgrounds, petrol stations… Often it’s discarded in the footwell before we even get home, and because SC aren’t here much and we’re often busy when they are, toys are barely played with.
I’d like to link some of their pocket money to effort with school. SC have apps for maths and English so we can see how much they do, and all have reading diaries. That way we can get them GoHenry cards and they can spend as they wish and it will help with their budgeting, they can open a savings pot, learn about interest, learn the value of money… And make me feel like less of a cash cow every other weekend.
We would still buy anything they need, this would be for extras.
How much pocket money do most people give at these ages?
* before anyone asks, DP is on board. He usually just says no to any requests so SC often come to me as I’m more likely to say yes *