Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!aluxe!mhuxi!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!cb From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: On allowances Message-ID: <340@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 15:03:09 EDT Article-I.D.: hlwpc.340 Posted: Thu Sep 13 15:03:09 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:12:28 EDT References: <21b0751f.708@apollo.uucp> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 20 My wife never had an allowance as a child and was also expected to do work around the house without pay. Her parents started giving her an allowance (I don't know how much or for how long) when she and her sisters came home from school one day with a project. Seems the teacher told them they were going to make their mother a mother's day present in class, and they were supposed to buy the materials with their allowance money. The girls came home and asked their parents what an allowance was, and when the folks asked why they asked, the girls explained. Result -- allowance! Let me add that my wife and I never got money for good report cards, but we heard of our classmates getting $x for an A, less than $x for a B, etc. Both we as kids and our parents thought this was disgusting. I can see rationale for all of the allowance practices suggested on the net so far, but I'd really balk at paying for grades! Carl Blesch