Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-19 | Page 13 | Your Baby and Mine

y ELD ED i AN ALLOWANCE NECESSARY I PART OF CHILDS CHILD'S EDUCATION l A. A F. F writes What is your opinion or of giving children an allowance allowance allow allow- ance I 1 believe it to be one of the best wa ways s to teach a child how to save and handle money I 1 simply would not tolerate a whiny child chUd I who came into the house every few minutes with Mama Iama I want a penny I want a nickel to buy an anice ice cream cone I have only been married eight months and I 1 haven't any children but Ira Im starting to collect ideas on child training I 1 realize that some of my pet theories will be and I do know that each child is different and has to tobe tobe be trained accordingly The other day I ventured to express express ex- ex press my iny opinion on the allowance business and my law father snapped at me hy should a child be given an allowance pray My Iy husband was very easy to raise according to his mother and I never asked or needed money but it If my child chUd is anything like me ho will alwa always s 's be e wanting and wishing andI and andI I want to curb that before he has the trouble I have had with my extravagant extravagant ex- ex nature which has been catered ed to all my life Ufe Answer An allowance is a necessary part of a a. childs child's education ed for living How Hoi can ean he h learn to save until he has learned to spend How can money mean an anything thing to him so long as it comes whenever lie he asks for it or until he has been able to manipulate it himself Let your law father answer those ques- ques Did lie he learn to manage a spoon Poon or fork by being fed Not b by he learned the he took his own own spoon in his own hand Children must learn that money has a value and they'll learn that only by seeing what it will buy what saving will accomplish and how denial may bring luxuries later They'll never learn that it if luxuries are showered upon them with the prodigality of 01 leaves from froma a tree Keeping a without i pocket money in a group group of children children chil- chil dren who have allowances may lead leada a a. child to stealing in order to be belike belike like his companions I felt very badly When my own son told nie me that his allowance the same for two I years was not as large arge as any boy in his crowd and asked me it If I CL allow him more each I was ashamed for havIng t told I 1 should have known his n ne better lie He saves a great deal dealon dealon on his new allowance old one was not sufficient for fOI needs and there wasn't i plus I The child should have the p liege of 01 handling money and del his own sr from dol doS wisely He gets no his parents parent's economy nor does learn anything by being told T 1 Is obvious From the time a c begins to know that money money ca spent he should have his pocketbook his own pennies e I week and be bc allowed to make mak mistakes on pennies and not la Ia haps p disastrously with ith doll doU