Reply To: Do Teens Deserve an Allowance?

I personally don’t like the “allowance” idea. When it comes to necessities or when dealing with young children parents should try their best to pay for it, but luxuries or older teens: – good idea to have some kind of side job (as some posters above have mentioned.) For girls there are probably more options due to the stigma / impracticality of boys working while in Yeshiva. There’s baby sitting / mother’s helper, tutoring, and making money using creativity, like baking cookies, miniatures, styling friends’ hair for a tip, and graphics, just to list a few. The confidence of having mastered a skill, and the sense of independence that results from this is definitely a positive .