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