A lesson I try to teach my youngsters is that currency gives you freedom, when you have currency of your own, you have the ability to make more choices, but i tell them this to encourage them to go out & find section time tasks, or to split sods around the town, or become babysitting while they are in high university.
I don’t just hand out currency – I pay the bills & buy the food, & 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 youngsters decide when we get to turn down the cooling system, that is up to me. When they want the cooling levels adjusted they ask me, & I determine if we should turn the thermostat down or not. Usually I decide that it is cool enough already, because I am the a single paying the utility bill at the end of the week, the youngsters decided that they would save up their currency to buy a small cooling system for their end of the house. They thought this meant they could use the air conditioning system as much as they wanted. To some degree they were correct, but before they bought this cooling system I explained to them that it cost currency to run it, as well. If they wanted the cooling they would have to pay section of the utility bill every week. The youngsters didn’t know that buying the air conditioning system component was just the first part, & that they had to keep paying to use it.