From the Ipswich Tribune
December 25, 1930 edition
The Child’s Allowance
Child specialists believe that a pocket allowance works best when it is in no way dependent on work done to help in the house, but is given in order to train the child in the use of money. Help in simple tasks should be expected as a matter of course, and an allowance of some sort given also as a matter of course. Do not use the allowance as a means of disciple. Find other ways of teaching obedience or other necessary lessons. Very unusual tasks may be paid for. If the child would otherwise have a continual sense of drudgery connected with everything around the home. For example, dishwashing is something everyone should help with. Everyone makes dishes dirty. Window washing, painting mowing the lawn, cleaning the cellar and similar occasional tasks, often a little heavy for a child may be rewarded by definite pay, just as one might pay an outsider to do them. Where the ready cash in a family is too small to permit any pay, the spirit of teamwork can be so strongly developed that no work need seem like drudgery, unfairly imposed on unwilling shoulders.
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