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I don't tie C's allowance to chores - I try to make chores things he is to do anyway, as part of the family. He always needs money, and I'm doing the allowance as a way to (Hopefully!) teach him how to budget what he gets. If he spends his entire allowance hanging with his friends on Friday night, guess what? he's sol for the rest of the week. It's a hard lesson for him; every once in awhile he gets it, but I hear a lot of whining about his "needs". On bigger jobs where I could pay somebody else, I do something similar to Indy - I offer C the job, and it must be done as if he were an outside employee before he gets the pay. (And I'll not wait around forever for him to "get around to it" - if he can't show some initiative about fitting it into his busy schedule, I figure he's not all that interested in either the job or the money!)
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