pocket money poll for 14yr olds.........((well, and 12yr olds too please:):)))

[Psychomum5]

have a thread in chat going on, mainly trying to work out if my DD1 (14) is right when she says.....

""Everyone gets mooooooooooooooooooooooore than me"

i give my 12 yr dd £30 per month. she has to pay for her phone credit and any activities with friends, makeup etc. although she says that isnt enough, and like you said everyone gets more than her... so i would be also be interested to know what is the norm.

My 15 (just) year old DS gets £10 paid into his account every week but also gets some money if he babysits for us.

He has to pay for trips out/snacks/games etc etc ( so comes back here a lot with his friends ) but I buy his clothes.

I find it hard as grew up very very poor but we now have a lot of money and it is easy to just give him stuff. But I want him to be sensible and value things.
DH and i talk about this a lot. It is a hard one to get perfectly right I think.

I tend to think we are getting close as he thinks before he spends money and is saving too.

I have a 12 year old too but he has SN and doesn't understand money.
I buy him LOADS

ok...................

well......DD1 gets £5 from us P/W, earns £5 from being a dance assistant at her dance school, we pay £5 every couple of weeks-ish for her mobile (she is very sparing with that), plus we pay for all her clothes (except if she is going out and wants something frivolous) and undies etc.

she (with her money) has to fund make-up (well, she tends to steal borrow mine in fact), going out, sweets and little bits.

she reckons she is poor, my friends think she is doing about right, DH reckons we give too much!!!

DS1 age 12 gets £40 a month, and DH and I pay for his phone top ups, clubs etc

DS2 age 7 gets £20 a month

kimi...I will fast forward past your post if my girls come read over my shoulder at all.

just out of interest, what does your 7yo buy with his pocket money???

Have answered on your other thread, but the boys get half their age in pounds, so 14yo gets £7pw, etc. We pay for activities and clothes. I also pay for phone top-ups, but, as they rarely use their phones, this is fine by me. If they start to abuse that, they will be responsible for their own top-ups.

Hi P5 who let you out of the box

DS2 banks most of it bless him, uses some if we go on holiday of if there is something he really wants

DS1 ....War hammer

DS1 (12) and DS2 (10) get £16 a month each paid into their bank account.

That's all I can afford.

They don't have mobile phones.

she not doing too badly then really, going on this.

I might add a little extra for bus fares, and maybe save me dropping her everywhere then.....she will be told however.

she forgets how much dance costs, and scouts, plus the shows and camps for both!

and kimi.......who says I am out of the box??? I may have snuck the laptop in!!!

ds (12) gets 20 euro per month. I buy his clothes, pay for school lunch and he has only just got a mobile, and I put 50 euro credit on it when I bought it. He only uses it for texts!

He has to do jobs for his money.

Sometimes he will forgo it and I'll buy him something from Amazon instead. He's choosing to have it in sterling for the next 3 months so that he can buy himself things when we go to London and the museums for a week in the summer.

My 15yo gets £35 a month
My 13yo gets £25 a month
My 9 yo gets 90p a week
The DTs have destroyed so many things that they are currently running with an enormous deficeit!

They all wear uniform so their money is for phone credit, socialising and clothes etc.

mars.....when do you think the twins will start getting pocket money then???

or will they forever owe you do ya reckon???

You know those University fee loans? Chickenfeed!!!!!!!!!!

PMSL.

am guessing they will be handed a bill then when they finally are of age to leave home/get a job/buy first house/get married/have their own babies!!!!

EACH TIME!

Without a doubt!

My 15 and 12 year olds gets £10 a month from us and £10 a month from my parents. Plus an extra £4 a month from my parents and £2 pounds a month from my gran for sweets and chocolate.So thats 26 pounds a month each. i buy all their clothes and give them money for things like swimming and cinema trips with their friends.

I give my 15yo and 17yo their bus fare and dinner money for school/college. Anything extra they have to ask for. Usually, they pay for things out of the money they earn from their part-time jobs.