A lesson I try to teach our kids is that currency gives you freedom.
When you have currency of your own, you have the ability to make more choices, i tell them this to encourage them to go out plus find area time jobs, or to split grasss around the city, or become babysitting while they are in high university.
I don’t just hand out currency – I pay the bills plus buy the food, plus anything else they need to buy for themselves. When they realized how much they wanted to have spending currency, they found the motivation to look for work. I don’t let the kids decide when the two of us get to turn down the a/c, that is up to me. When they want the cooling levels adjusted they ask me, plus I determine if the two of us should turn the thermostat down or not! Usually I decide that it is cool enough already, because I am the 1 paying the utility bill at the end of the week, however the kids decided that they would save up their currency to buy a small a/c for their end of the house. They thought this meant they could use the a/c as much as they wanted. To some degree they were correct, however before they bought this a/c I explained to them that it cost currency to run it, as well. If they wanted the cooling they would have to pay area of the utility bill every week. The kids didn’t suppose that buying the a/c unit was just the first part, plus that they had to keep paying to use it.