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[quote=Anonymous]I think my parents were smart about this.

My older brother and I both had an allowance when we were young. We were both also very smart. When my brother got to high school, he started "coasting" at school and getting Bs. My parents said, basically, look we know you can do better than this, but we also know we can't force you to. However, if you choose to continue to coast, then you will no longer get an allowance, and you'll be expected to get a job for spending money. Getting an allowance in high school is predicated on you taking your primary job, school, seriously, and if you're not going to do that, you can get a paying job.

So, he got Bs and a job in the produce section of the grocery store.

I worked my butt off in high school and studied a ton, and made great grades, and my parents continued my allowance and even gave me a bump to $20 a week (this was around the year 2000) once I was a senior in exchange for me also doing the family grocery shopping on Sundays. Additionally, they were very quick to buy me anything related to school (prom tickets, a school ring, the yearbook, money for class trips) as a reward for my hard work, while my brother had to pay for such things himself.

We were both required to get jobs in the summer basically as soon as we were old enough, and I think that's important. Half that money was saved for college, the other half we did what we wanted with.

And as far as things like Chipotle and special drinks and movie tickets, etc, etc, my parents rule was if it was with them, it was on them (and so were our friends if we brought a friend), but if it was just with friends, we had to pay ourselves. And yes, I found that annoying sometimes as I had tons of friends who could just say "oh, we're going to the movies, can I have $20?" and their parents would just give it to them. But it gave me a motivation to do things with my parents, and taught me a valuable lesson in budgeting. I'd stick to your guns on that. [/quote]

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