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Should kids be paid for doing chores?
Should kids be paid for doing chores?
WILL HARPER, Fairborn: “Yes. It teaches them the value of a dollar and helps them get prepared for working when they’re older.”
GRETCHEN LONG, Centerville: “I don’t think so. It’s important for them to contribute to running a household. I think they should receive an allowance, but I don’t think that should be contingent on the work they do. The allowance teaches fiscal responsibility, and chores teach about contributing to the family system.”
SUZANNE CHUVALAS, Vandalia: “No. It’s an expectation that they’ll clean their rooms and pick up after themselves, and they are rewarded in other ways.”
CINDY KOENIG, Wapakoneta: “Yes. It gives them a sense of responsibility, and they learn to understand the value of a dollar.”
AMANDA HAVENS, Washington C.H.: Yes, because they’ll do it more if you’re going to pay them.”
KYLE POTTS, Springfield: “They should be paid weekly, because they like money.”
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By J
April 30, 2010 7:55 AM | Link to this
No. We have responsibilities we have to meet whether or not monetary gain is attached. Giving them money, for what they should be doing, is part and parcel of why the people entering the workforce have a sense of entitlement. They currently they believe they should be paid extra just for making it to work every day. If they need to learn the value of a dollar, let them go cut lawns for other people, babysit OTHER people’s kids, like most of us did, rather than meeting their obligations to their own household.
By Lea
April 30, 2010 10:37 AM | Link to this
Yes. All chores should be done though. Partially done = no money.
By L.Griffith
April 30, 2010 11:09 AM | Link to this
NO PAY FOR CHOIRS!! They get FREE Room & Board
By Deez
April 30, 2010 11:21 AM | Link to this
That’s great L., but they’re talking about chores. I don’t know many choirs who get paid anyway. It’s up to parents, there isn’t one way that’s universal for everyone.
By Socialists will bury you.
April 30, 2010 12:57 PM | Link to this
Obama says they should get minimum wage and health benefits.
By JD
April 30, 2010 1:15 PM | Link to this
No. I’m bringing my children up like parents brought me up-no allowance, no getting paid to do chores. The way they saw it was why should kids get paid do help out and contribute to the household? I agree. We didn’t have the extra money for allowance growing up and my husband and I don’t now. Doing assigned jobs helped up learn about responsibility from a young age.
By MKM
April 30, 2010 2:00 PM | Link to this
They should have unpaid chores they do being part of the family, and some optional chores that they can earn money for doing. Then they can learn to divide up their money into giving, saving, and spending pots.
By stateofaffairs
April 30, 2010 4:17 PM | Link to this
my children are more likely to do the chores if they know they are getting paid, where as they whine and moan about it otherwise
By Reverend Leroy
April 30, 2010 7:19 PM | Link to this
Deez, there are choirs—professional singers—who get paid.
By Deez
April 30, 2010 11:10 PM | Link to this
I didn’t say there weren’t any. I said I don’t know of many. Read it again genius. You missed the whole joke. But with a name like Leroy, I’m not surprised.
By Mom#101
May 1, 2010 1:53 PM | Link to this
I think when kids reach the age that they can and should help around the house they should be offered an allowance. Of course this allowance will come with a SMALL list of chores. If they don’t get them done then NO allowance. This is what my parents did years ago and I learned how to help my family and save my money at the same time. They added more chores as I got older but the allowance only increased ever so often as I got older. I thought this was great and saved my money to get things my parents didn’t want to buy me. Kids nowdays are handed everything and never learn reponsiblity. I think this is a perfect solution.
By fortressdayton
May 3, 2010 9:06 AM | Link to this
“It teaches them the value of a dollar…” What absolute rubbish. Chores are the responsibility one has in a household. They are necessary and they teach you the value of…dare I say it?…responsibility versus our welfare state entitlement mentality. Money is earned by working outside the home.