How much pocket money does your 14 yr old get?

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DS gets £25 a month which has always been fine, but just recently he has started to go out occasionally with friends to the cinema, for a burger king etc. and I give him an extra £10 or so to go towards this. Just wondering if its time to up his pocket money a bit. When he's old enough I'll be encouraging him to get a part time job, but in the meantime I'm wondering what the best approach is.
Any advice gratefully received!

We give our kids their school year per week, paid monthly :o

By which I mean in year 1 they get 1€ per week, but receive it once per month (so 5€ once a month is something that they can actually buy something with if they don't want to just spend it on sweets!). In year 7, 7€ per week paid monthly is 35€, in year 9 it is 45€ per month etc.

Children do need more spending money as they get older, and asking for handouts at your parents' whim rather than doing your own budgeting is humiliating by mid teens imo.

My eldest cooks the family meal for 5 once per week. She enjoys cooking new recipes and offered to do it and didn't ask for money, but I stipulated that it had to be a commitment (because she does it on a night I'm late home and would otherwise pre prepare something to heat up so I need to know whether she's actually going to do it, in advance). In return for sticking to her commitment I add 5€ to her monthly pocket money. If she doesn't feel like cooking she can bung fish fingers and chips in, it's the commitment she has to stick to, the big cooking projects are her choice. She's responded really well to the responsibility with the little reward.

The amount per school year works well and all the kids "get" how it works and that it ends up fair as when you leave school you stop getting pocket money, but younger siblings still at school continue.

DD gets £40pm, this is to cover outings with friends, eating out and any extras that she wants to buy outside of basic clothes. If there is something particularly expensive she wants to buy we might negotiate that she saves half of the cost and I will make up the difference. This allowance is on the understanding that she works hard at school, helps out at home and occasionally looks after her younger sibling. I think it is a good way to learn to manage what she has and how to budget.

ds(14) has been getting £100/month paid into his bank for the last year. Any xmas/birthday money also goes in there.

Out of this he pays for

• his school breakfast/lunch £2-3 day = ~£40-50/month
• his phone contract comes directly out his account GiffGaff £10/month

(if he wants more data he can pay more to increase it or buy the next month earlier, but he monitors his data now to make it lasts the month)

• any going or eating out/xbox points he wants to buy
• any expensive branded clothes he wants etc

It has worked well as he drinks from his water bottle at school lunch now to avoid spending £1 a day of his money on sugary drinks. If he goes to the cinema he asks me to get his ticket using Clubcard points (he pays the reduced clubcard amount) and gets his sweets/drink at Tesco before going as he realises its much cheaper.

It sounds a lot to give each month, but works out much cheaper for me than just continually giving him money and not realising how much it was adding up to over the month. Been pretty pleased so far to see him watching his account, trying to balance keeping money for going out with friends and for xbox other things and making sensible choices.

Hopefully in the coming months I'll be able to sell the idea of him getting a small job/paper round to up his "income", so far he's been resistant to the idea.

£14 a month.
We paid for things like belong to (subs), and buy their clothes etc. They pay for phone credit and presents and any spends.

This is always a 'how long is a piece of string' question on MN though.

14 year old DS gets £100 per month for everything except clothing and lunch money. He also earns a bit here and there doing odd jobs on the farm.
He's into Warhammer which is an expensive hobby!

DS gets around 35 a month p,us his phone paid, school lunches paid for and toiletries and clothes bought for him. I don’t sub him and extra for trips out so he’s pretty good st looking for bargains.

My 15 year old has a morning paper round which pays £80 per month. We pay his phone and he pays for pretty much everything else although we buy essential clothes like uniform, basics (jeans, pants etc) and pay for his phone. He hardly spends any of his money (the occasional game, book etc) and uses it to fund trips he goes on with two groups he belongs to (sometimes abroad), he pays at least half for these (just about to pay £200 for a trip in the summer, we'll pay the other £200). He never asks for money. Never ever. We pay £15 a month for his phone. Youngest is 13, has name down for paper round, we give £25 a month and pay phone. As soon as paper round starts, the £25 a month stops and we'll just pay phone. We currently pay for all trips but will run a similar system as with the 15 year old once paper round starts. Wouldn't pay for trips if they were not contributing, couldn't afford it.

DD is 14 and does dog sitting once a week and makes £20 from that and babysits for neighbours and family friends probably 3 nights a month (depending on time she’ll make £15-£25). I still give her £5 a week but I think if she didn’t have these little jobs she’d struggle to fund her expensive lifestyle/fashion sense she’s hoping to get a part time job over summer if she can find time but I’ll probably keep giving her an allowance until she’s 16. I don’t pay for anything extra apart from school clothes and sometimes books, but I buy those for everyone in the house.

12yo also gets £5 a week and dog sits once a week (same dog, needs looking after twice so I let them split it), so also gets £20 from that. She sometimes gets paid to teach/choreograph for younger classes at dance too.