In primary schools "most children get a pound a day to spend on the way to school"

[Clary]

According to Prue Leith here

Really? Mine don't (they actually don't get any pocket money but if they did it would be about 50p/week and chores-related). Do yours?

I doubt it, mine don't spend any money on the way to school. DD does a few chores and gets a couple of quid at the weekend occasionally but it's not set in stone and depends whether it's payday and I'm feeling rich or not!

I live right by a big secondary school. Our corner shop now sells chicken nuggets, sausage rolls and cips. The kids eat that for breakfast as well as the usual chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks.

I can see myself giving them a £1 on the way home from school on a friday.

but not everyday - bankrupcy and rotten teeth!

Factually flawed

my ds is 13 and he doesn't Just gets monthly money and budgets(not very well)I think thats quite shocking

yeah, I was rather at that one.

Mine doesn't get pocket money (she doesn't want it - still has money left over from last xmas in her purse), but in any case, how many primary age kids are allowed to go to/from school alone, with or without a pound in their pocket? Anyone you know?

what a load of crap. ds and dd go nowhere near the shop on the way to school and only on the way home if I want something! v occasionally they might get choccie buttons if i'm going to the shop anyway but no way do they get a quid to blow on whatever! am that people might actually do this? do they not walk their dc's to school then?

I know the on-the-way-to-school habits of about 30 children from different years in DS's school and not one of them spends any money at all on the way to school! Or on the way home unless they are going off shopping with a parent.

I don't know a primary aged child who DOES spend money on the way to school!

I heard her say that on the radio this morning and I did think at the time 'surely not?'. We don't have any shops between our home and school anyway.

There are no shops on the way to our school! But even if there were, ds would not be spending his money there. He gets £1.50 a week, which is sometimes supplemented by a small amountfor doing jobs etc., but he usually saves it up until he has enough to buy a Playmobil or Lego set. He never spends it on sweets or snacks. I don't know any of his friends who spend that much on those sorts of things either.

Oh how ridiculous. Of course there will be some saying 'oh well, parents today don't teach their children the value of money, what chance have they got....blah...blah...I remember when all this were fields....children had respect for adults when I was little...' this will give them fuel for the parenting pyre.

That's the benefit of driving to school

I have never given mine anything like £8.40 a week (with 4 I'd have soon been bankrupt), let alone £1 a day on the way.

I heard a Food Programme interview with Prue Leith and have gone right off her since.

do not know anyone who does this

DS is dropped off at school or i walk him in

either way, we don;t stop off at the shop

i usually take him a snack after school, or we might go to the bakery once in a while to get a gingerbread man

but out of DS class, and certainly all my freinds, not a single one stops on the way to school to buy crapola

Glad I'm not the only one whose jaw dropped when she said this on the news this morning.

nah more like £2.50 to spend on fags

Really? No, mine don't! We don't go near a shop and I certainly wouldn't be forking out £3 every morning - waht the devil for? What do they need?

Well I don't know how DS would manage to spend anything on the way to school unless he tipped the lollipop lady. We don't pass any shops.

I wish somebody would give me £1 a day when I am taking them to school. I'd put it to better use.

Not here either nor do I know any mums of their friends that do that either.

We started giving dd pocket money a year or so ago but it's drifted off to nothing. She doesn't really need pocket money every week. Grandmas give dc pocket money once a month and that along with Christmas and birthday money has piled up. Sometimes they buy something if they really want it.

I can only think it's sweets they would spend a pound on each day if I were to give it to them, and no way is that going to happen. They have a few sweets (dished out by me) but a pounds worth of sweets a day is too much and would make them fat imo.

Mine don't. However, there are a few children at DS2 and DS3's school who buy breakfast from the shop on the way, I've heard.

I was appalled to see a notice outside a local shop today saying that under-16s would not be sold flour or eggs in the run-up to Hallowe'en - it's a Safer Neighbourhoods initiative. I've not been maliciously trick-or-treated once in the almost 20 years I've lived in the area, and young people need to learn about shopping and cooking, not to be prevented from buying basic ingredients because of the unruly behaviour of a very small number (and do they suddenly become responsible at 17, I wonder?).

ooh well I'm glad it's not just me who doesn't do this bizarre thing.

As others say, there's not really anywhere to spend £1 on the way to school anyway. And why would you do that?

Does anyone at all do it? (apart from Prue, we presume)

Bonkers. We pass the local shop on the way to school but don't see any primary school children lining up to spend their £1 on an apres-breakfast treat. Now the SECONDARY school kids - yes there are swarms of them hanging about, all breakfasting on cheezy wotsits washed down with Lucozade, and complemented by a Silk Cut or two.

I and a freind used to have 5p to go to the yellow shop on the way home and get some sweets (probably once a week), aged about 7-9 (moved when I was 9 so was before then).
No shop in our village so I doubt any of the kids have money to go to the shop on the way to or from school.