Pocketmoney?

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Waskey

Thinking about it, if you're paying out £45 a week, thats a day on a boat you can't have, and after 15 weeks, that's a trip to the Red Sea you can't have........

See, gotta put these things in Perspective!

(Glad I'm far too young and immature to have kids!)

Just running with this.....

you pay for your own extra curricular activities
you pay for your own holidays

H'mmm

Vision of Foggy jnr sat at home on the playstation, not bothering to eat or wash whilst we go for a fortnights holiday, and it'd be the end of all afterschool activities ... except maybe the Wii....

2nd holiday at her majesty's pleasure???

oh well

LOL, Paul

[Waskey]

Sounds much like a plan.....

[Jay_Benson]

£45 per week is not too bad really to pay them really.

Obviously there are deductions that you will have to take out. Try the list below with the suggested amounts per week:

Board £10
Lodge £15
Clothing £10
Taxis £5#
Counselling £25 per hour
Board* £10
Cleaning £5
Laundry £5

# variable depending on where you live and if they take up the opportunity

* 14 year olds eat like horses and so double charging is acceptable until they get to about 25 - after that they get really conscious about their weight and so that price drops to about £5 per month.

Of course he could reconsider his pay rise application.

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by Jay_Benson

£45 per week is not too bad really to pay them really.

Obviously there are deductions that you will have to take out. Try the list below with the suggested amounts per week:

Board £10
Lodge £15
Clothing £10
Taxis £5#
Counselling £25 per hour
Board* £10
Cleaning £5
Laundry £5

# variable depending on where you live and if they take up the opportunity

* 14 year olds eat like horses and so double charging is acceptable until they get to about 25 - after that they get really conscious about their weight and so that price drops to about £5 per month.

Of course he could reconsider his pay rise application.

Since when did kids take taxis?

Oh..mum/dad's taxi I guess you mean?

[Waskey]

Parents don't need to pay their kids.......what are grandparents for?!

[JonP]

I pay them each £5 per week. Often buy them stuff they don't have to pay for though to feed their XBox and PC habits...

[Jules]

2 years ago at age 14 and 16 mine got £45 a month with a potential extra £20 which was performance related (they both had set chores to do , one was in charge of all the laundry and the other was in charge of dishwasher and kitchen duties, this probably avaraged about one hour per day each)

It does of course all depend on what they have to buy out of their money. If it includes clothes for example.

SO I think £45 a week sounds like loads too much! I know University students who dont get that much and have to buy their own food out of it!

[IanD]

I used to get about £1 a week untill I was 11, than as my dad was a builder I used to go to work with him in the school hoildays (somtimes I'd even take time off school to go to work) and earn enough money to last the rest of the year. I remember my first pay packet was £60 and that was in 1981, but I had hacked off three skip loads of tiles from a resturant kitchen wall to earn that.

[Jim Shaw]

god you were well off, my first wage was £36.02 per week in 1984, but I'd to single handed, unload 9 tons of plaster off of a truck for that, and that was just on my first morning,
that was a reality check, as I'd just left school 3 days earlier

Originally Posted by IanD

I used to get about £1 a week untill I was 11, than as my dad was a builder I used to go to work with him in the school hoildays (somtimes I'd even take time off school to go to work) and earn enough money to last the rest of the year. I remember my first pay packet was £60 and that was in 1981, but I had hacked off three skip loads of tiles from a resturant kitchen wall to earn that.

[Calamity Jane]

My 14 yo daughter gets £30 pm. She is expected to buy her make-up, music, mags, "extra clothing" ie. fun stuff, bags, belts etc. But I buy her normal clothes. If she is just going out with her friends locally she will use her money but if she is going out for the day somewhere special I will give her £20 for entry and lunch.

She makes extra by baby-sitting a(£4 per hour) and she gives piano lessons for £5 per half hour.

If I ask her to do something specific like clear up leaves in garden or sweep front of house, I do not expect to pay her anything for that and I don't. That is part of living in the household and she is expected to help occasionally and she does not mind.

Calamity