At first the child plays in shop with friends, using instead of money leaves from trees, but in process of growing it has a desire to possess the real money and to have an opportunity to make small purchases. And before parents there is a question – whether it is worth giving to the child honestly earned or all issues on acquisition of chewing gum it has to resolve through mom with dad.
For what the child needs money
Money is required for most of children for the sake of the most innocent needs. For them the child will be able to buy chewing gum, ice cream or bun in school buffet, stickers with the favourite hero, and even will begin to postpone them in a moneybox to fulfill more large-scale dream.
From what age the child should give money
As a rule, kindergartners do without pocket money, and here the younger school student can already allocate the small sum. Money is another step to maturity and independence. If all friends of your son or the daughter have an opportunity to buy Chupa Chups in a stall, and your child has to wait every time for evening and you with long-awaited delicacy, it easily can develop in it such negative lines as greed and envy to people around. Couple of hundred a week – the small price for that they were not. However before counting the sum, make sure that your child grew before to have money of which he will be able to dispose at discretion.
How to understand that the child can give money
Money does not appear from anywhere, they need to be earned by the work. It is important that the child understood that parents make efforts for what they both pay them salary, and was respectful to it. To create at him the necessary representation, periodically tell the son or the daughter about the work – that you should carry out what additional information should be studied how you are tired. Make sure that the child can independently go to shop, he is capable to distribute money so that they were enough for all desirable purchases, does not forget a backpack in a luggage storage and does not leave delivery at the checkout. If the kid successfully copes with your requests to buy milk and bread, for certain he will master also purchase of things and delicacies for himself. At last, specify what the child realizes for what he needs money. It is not important whether he wants to buy every day to himself chocolate or expects to save up for the bicycle. The main thing that he understands what it needs it for.
In what cases to give to the child money
Do not turn money into the instrument of management of the child. It is easy to control the son or the daughter, having promised a certain sum for each five and tided up the apartment, however as a result your child can refuse to wash the floor without additional financial stimulation. Give money not for a concrete act better, and by results of some period of time (for example, weeks) when the child behaved well, helped you and diligently studied. And, on the contrary, the large quarrel or serious offense at school is the reason to deprive of the kid of his "earnings".