Allowances for teenagers

[chaplin1409]

Hi
My daughter is 17 and currently doing a levels in 6th form. We have never done allowances in the past as they have never asked for much and when they have we have generally just given it. This has never happened much as they 're in cadets they tend to be busy with that. She now has quite a few friends who seem to be getting money and spending and she would like to start going out for meals with friends and buy extra clothes not essentially that we would buy. How do you go about giving an allowance and how much? She is looking for a part time job but as she has quite a few trips in the summer with cadets this is most likely not going to happen until September.

I got £10 a week until I was 18 (4 years ago). Definitely wouldn't have been able to afford my frivolous lifestyle unless I had my PT job though, worked 10-20 hours at min. wage which was the criminally low amount of £3.68 at the time, so had anything from £47 to £85ish a week.

How helpful are she around the house? I used to have to do quite a lot of jobs for my tenner:
Empty dishwasher Saturday and Sunday
Put away family's clean underwear and ball socks 2/3x per week
Clean bathrooms and steam clean floors, doors and mirrors once a week
Help bring shopping in & put away once a week
Occasionally help in the garden
Dust, hoover and tidy own room regularly
Hoover whole house 1-3x a week

Reading that back I feel conned doing all that for a tenner! I'd give £10-£15 as a base rate and more for doing jobs and being helpful.

Thank you so makes sandwiches every day for us all why the others wash and dry up and she cleans bathroom once a week.

DS2 is 17. He needs £24 a week for his bus fare plus food at college (he is out of the house for 12 hours a day). We give him £60 a week and out of this he manages to buy clothes and pay for socialising.

The deal is that if he wants more than this he gets a job but if he needed something like new trainers or a coat or wanted to do something expensive as a one off we would probably pay for it.

He doesnt do a lot around the house but will help out if asked. Giving him an allowance has been great for both of us, he manages his money really well and I know how much its going to cost each month.

Chores for money get ure whole house cleaned and she gets the clothes but she still I'm education so maybe still support her Im sure she will pay u back when she has high paying job thanks to use hello her through education