What age to stop Pocket Money ?

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As the title says, my son is 16 and is at college 5 days a week doing "A Levels". Would i be being unreasonable to expect him to get a job to cover evenings and weekends ?
 
Yes. If he's only got evenings and w/end free bit much expecting him to get a job afterwards. Especially if he needs to do coursework, which easily goes into evenings. I'd still give him dinner money.
 
teulk said:
As the title says, my son is 16 and is at college 5 days a week doing "A Levels". Would i be being unreasonable to expect him to get a job to cover evenings and weekends ?
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No, it's perfectly reasonable to expect him to work his own way from now.

I did it and so did many others. Does he get EMA?
 
Give him money for treats and motivation ect. But in principle its a good idea to stop the pocket money so he can start aclimatising to the idea of standing on his own two feet.
 
He's not a adult yet. Not only that pay for 16 year olds is lousy, at least when you reach 18 it goes up to NMW.

Let him enjoy college social life and make friends, not expect him to work.
 
I was doing a paper round when I was 14-16 years old for £16 a week, then worked on the tills for the shop I did the paper round at when I was 16 in my last year of school for £3.05p an hour!!! 16 and a half years old I got a job at ASDA and here I am at uni still working for them! Get him working soon or he might end up just bumming around like a lot of people I left behind when I went to uni!
 
I think that this question ("What age to stop Pocket Money?") is an interesting, and perplexing one. It is necessary, or so is my belief, that this decision is ultimately to be made using mainly the knowledge of the parent, and not that of other people.

I, personally, do not spend much money (other than a computer every few years, although not for a while now), however, if I were required to work for money, I would have to sacrifice school time.

I can only comment upon the "work-load" of the subjects I take (Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry), but at AS-Level (and I presume more so at A-Level), the "work load" is rather high.

What one has to gauge is the positive impact of work with the negative impact that there may (or may not) be on the education of the child. I believe that for me, there would be a considerable impact on my education, however, this will vary from person to person (I believe).

At my 6th Form they do impose a limit (albeit only suggested) of a relatively small number of hours per week of work (unrelated to the education of the child). This is probably based upon experience (or so I am told), and therefore it might be of interest to the original poster.

Work in itself is good education. It is a difficult conundrum for the optimisation. I suggest that the original poster will discuss this with the child, and come to a conclusion that is an optimised (or tending to optimised) solution.

Angus Higgins
 
Angus-Higgins said:
I reciprocate (however with reference to the comment I referred to, which is being referred to, in the comment to which I refer now).
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you just can't help yourself, can you? :D

edit: i should add something on topic. stop the money and make them get a job. if people at uni can work part time, i'm sure a sixth former can. :)
 
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