In this day and age, it seems that children believe very strongly that any money that they earn is theirs to do with as they like. What happens when your child decides that he would rather not dry the dishes and be perfectly willing to forgo the cash? Or that this week he needs the cash, so will do his chores, and next week, he has no particular need for money, so he won’t. Pitfalls of tying chores to pocket money The PitfallsĪs with any reward based system, the pitfall is that it depends on the reward being worth the effort. It teaches children the value of work and it teaches children the value of money.
It provides incentive and it provides predictable consequences. It is an apparently simple learning lesson. You don’t do your chore: you don’t get paid. The advantage of tying them together is that you have a built-in link between cause and effect. The first issue that I would like to deal with is “Is it a good idea that pocket money be tied in with chores?” And the best answer I can come up with for you is “Possibly”.
Should Chores and Pocket Money be tied together? In the end, we found one system for each that worked for the longest amount of time. Vernon and I tried many and varied ways of dealing with both.
The issues of chores and pocket money and whether there should be linkage between the two have always vexed parents.
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