What age to stop Pocket Money ?

teulk · 17 Nov 2007 at 00:11

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 ?

teulk · 17 Nov 2007 at 02:00

dark_shadow said:
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?

He's not entitled to EMA as the combined household income is way over the maximum they set which i think is total crap as the money is for the student not the parents and suposed to be an insentive for the student.

teulk · 17 Nov 2007 at 02:02

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teulk · 17 Nov 2007 at 02:05

Moses99p said:
How many hours though?

What subjects is he doing? some subjects require a fair bit of work, some are a pathetically easy at A Level.

and how much do you currently give him?

If you asked his tutors they'd say it's better for him to work a little as possible.

Hes doing English Literature/Language. History. Government and politics.
He doesnt get a great deal of pocket money but he spends his evenings either out with his mates or on his xbox so he has plenty of time to do a part time job. a lot of his friends who he spends his time with have part time jobs and they manage to go to college and have a soclial life....................as already mentioned in another post its not all about the money, its about getting him to stand on his own two feet and learning to become independant, getting experience and learning the true value of money. Get him ready for adulthood and the real world once hes finished at college. The other day he told me he "NEEDED" something and expected me to agree to buying it, when infact he didnt need it but would like to have it. If he had a part time job he could buy it himself and have the satifaction that he bought it himself with his earnings. No ones asking him to get a full blown 36hr a week job..........

teulk · 17 Nov 2007 at 02:41

Mephisto said:
Well this is what is was like for me.

College finished at about 5pm. Got home at about 6.30pm. Had tea, a shower...etc, did college work. By that time it was more or less time for bed.

So if I was working Saturday and Sunday I would have had literally NO free time whatsoever.

Yes but im only talking perhaps 1 or two evenings per week and one day/few hours at the weekend - still leaves plenty of time to have fun.

teulk · 17 Nov 2007 at 16:13

Ok, the general opinion seems to be that there is no reason why he shouldnt get a job and there is no reason why his pocket money shouldnt stop. I have to say that whilst he was at school (well his last year) he worked as a milk boy about 3days a week and earned about £30 - this involved him getting up at 2am, getting home around 6am and then going to school - this was his chioce to do this job and was in no way forced into it, he did because he wanted to ! So he by no means lacks motivation and his school work didnt suffer as he got good grades.