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Show Child Learns Monev Values j By MYRTLE MEYER EI.DRED It Is so difficult for a mother to keep her hands off the child's allowance. allow-ance. She wanta him to exhibit his ability to manage even the first few cents she gives him to spend. No one learns management except ex-cept by trial and error and the er- YourBaby rors that Is to the mother are often more abundant than the Sue-censes Sue-censes when children first begin to spend money. Gives Away Money Mrs. A. H. N. writes: "My 84-year-old boy gets S cents a week for an allowance. Last Saturday he played with two boys of 7 and 8 years, and they persuaded him to give them 1 cent each. He admitted ad-mitted this. This Saturday by saving sav-ing he had 6 cents to spend and he said he gave them 2 cents each. I know they all had a bag of popcorn pop-corn and false faces. "Now these parents are aa well able to afford an allowance as I. Should I forbid these boys playing with my boy? I did say to him that I was not going to give him an allowance al-lowance this week as he had misspent mis-spent his father's hard-earned money. What advice would you give me about thia?" Let Him Spend It Forbid the children playing togetherif to-getherif you wish because they are ao much older and your boy cannot keep up with them and therefore feels inferior. He salves his emotion by generously sharing his pennies. But don't take his allowance al-lowance away. Viewed from his angle, he got full satisfaction from his money. He got the comoanion- ship of these big boys and he got as much popcorn and a false face. They must have pooled their money, as 6 cents would not have bought so much. I If you cut off his allowance, you 'are aaying: "You can have money, jonly if you spend It the way I want 'you to." Such precepts are not of the slightest value to the child. The experience he gets when he spends his money is its own teacher. He discovers then thst he haa apent his pennies foolishly, unthinkingly, and got no value for them. It is just such experiences which warn him In the future to do differently. |