Hey mamas, what are we giving 11-year-olds for allowance these days? I have a chore chart for the kids but I’m hoping an allowance for my oldest will help to curb some of the endless eye rolls and dramatic sighs. Thanks!
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My daughter keeps her room organized and clean , I do her laundry and fold her clothes and she puts them away . She takes the trash out and gets NO allowance
No allowance unless above and beyond work…
$12 for garbage, firewood refills ( including cutting kindling) keeping room clean and any other random things I ask his help for.
$3 a week. She has 1 chore that she does and she has to do it without the eye roll or dramatic sighs otherwise she doesn’t get it. She’s 12.
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$20 he cleans the dinner table, handles trash and empties the dishwasher.
Maybe I need to do this…at the moment they get $ here and there for their games and then if we go n e where… even to Home Depot… they get something lol
None!!! All my 7 sons earned things they wanted to buy/get based on 2 things their grades and if they did their weekly chores. None of this just buying them some game or toy just because they wanted it…
My kids got on a kick that they need allowance once. I told them if I give you allowance ($20 a week we live on a farm so more then just household chores) I will only be paying for things that you need not what you want to do or want. It lasted 2mns, they realized they get to do more stuff my way…
$15 a fortnight each (12 & 10) they alternate each day feeding dog, one stacks/ other unpacks dishwasher, make bed daily, full clean of room once a week, take bins in/ out on bin day, take laundry up or downstairs, empty lunch box out of school bag on weekdays. If they cook a meal or clean the car they earn extra. If they don’t tick off all chores in the fortnight they only get a percentage of their pocket money based on what they completed.
My 11&12yos won’t even put their dirty laundry in the bin or pick up trash. When I ask them to they argue & thow fits. So they get nothing from me except for the very basics, Christmas, Easter & birthday. They know if they want privileges like their phones, field trip money, rec nite money etc they have to do things without argument. They often would rather go without.
My kids allowance is food, clothes and housing.
No such thing as allowance at our house. The kids do their chores the same as I do and my husband does. Right now my oldest work part time, they have been working here and there since they were 15. Whatever they make - its theirs to spend. I don’t ever ask them to use their money to pay for things around the house. However, both of them always call and ask if we need anything from the store, before coming home from work! My youngest is 12 at the moment. She gets her pocket money from birthday/holiday presents, grandma, or she gets to turn in cans and bottles.
5 a week. It’s all I can afford.