Luz Shosie and Ned Vare

on 8/12/02 6:50 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

> Our deal with him is that 10% goes to the
> church, 10% goes to long-term savings and the rest is "expendable".

We might need a definition of "allowance." Most of us assume that an
allowance we give our children is discretionary -- for the free use by the
child. If the parents put conditions (strings) on how some of it it is to be
spent -- not that there's anything wrong with that -- the amount that the
parents control is not allowance, it's really still the parents' money that
they are keeping in the child's pockets, to be spent as they have directed.

When you control money you "give" your kid, the amount you control is not
allowance. If there's some left over that the child can spend (or save, or
give away) at his/her discretion, that amount is the actual allowance.

Ned Vare

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When you control money you "give" your kid, the amount you control is not
allowance. If there's some left over that the child can spend (or save, or
give away) at his/her discretion, that amount is the actual allowance.

I AGREE!!!
I think I would tell my children that I am putting a certain amount aside
for them for savings, charity etc that they could add to IF they wish.
keeping that seperate rather than giving an allowance and then taking some
of it back. After all one can't choose to give if there is no choice.
~Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein