Pocket money and bedtime?

[joanofarchitrave]

I've just searched for old pocket money threads to help me decide whether to give ds a rise, and i am at them. I'm hoping to find out that rates have dropped due to the recession!

DS is about to turn 8. He currently gets £1.50 a week, which is not linked to the chores he does, and he doesn't have to save it (though often does). Bedtime starts at 7.45. I'd love to know what others do at this age.

i didn't do pocket money becuase we were too poor and had three kids

but, my view is this

based on the 'pasta jar' concept

do a good deed - get a piee of pasta in a jar

dont - and dont

for every pasta piece - you get 10p

smake a list of things that would be worth 10p ( or whatever)

ds's get 10p per year (so 5yo gets 50p and 9yo gets 90p).
But I am separated from their dad, and I think he also gives them the same.
And my mum gives them 50p each as well.

9yo ds (was 9 is Sep) goes to bed around 8.30pm, probably goes to sleep around 9-9.30pm.

oh and tha pasta can get taken away - so if you piss about at bedtime you can scream up thee stairs " right thats it IF YOU ARE NOT QUIET ON THE COUNT OF THREE I AM TAKING AWAY A PIECE OF FUSILLI"

7 and about to turn 9.

They both get 1 euro a week (about 85p), unconditionally + a lump sum (5 to 10 euros) if we go on holiday. We only buy food, drinks and entrance tickets when out and about. So its always their money in the gift shop/supermarket. We don't go to places that sell stuff they are interested in very often so they always have enough saved up to buy something should they want to. DD has a winter birthday and saved 20 weeks last summer to buy a toy she really wanted. Quite often they save and get half way there and change their minds because they don't want that toy any more. I think they are getting a good grip on the value of money.

Bedtimes, doesn't it depend when they have to get up? Eldest 10.5 hours before he has to get up, youngest 11 hours (which works out at 9pm and 8.30pm respectively).

we dont do pocket money (dd is 8, ds is 5). Lights off for dd is 8.15pm and for ds is 7.45pm on schoolnights (later at weekends/holidays)