A lesson I try to teach our kids is that cash gives you freedom, and when you have cash of your own, you have the ability to make more choices.
I tell them this to encourage them to go out and find section time jobs, or to break lawns around the town, or become babysitting while they are in middle school.
I don’t just hand out cash – I spend money 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 cash, they found the motivation to look for work. I don’t let the kids 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 temperature control down or not, however usually I decide that it is cool enough already, because I am the 1 paying the utility bill at the end of the week, the kids decided that they would save up their cash to buy a small 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 purchased this I explained to them that it cost cash to run it, as well. If they wanted the cooling they would have to spend money section of the utility bill every week. The kids didn’t think that buying the air conditioning system component was just the first part, and that they had to keep paying to use it.