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Abigail Breslin gets a $13 allowance. Image: Getty Images
At the premiere of her latest movie, "My Sister's Keeper," she told reporters that she recently got a $1 raise. "I get $13 [a week] now, because I'm 13," says Breslin.
Breslin, who lives with her parents and two brothers, might be a millionaire movie star, but her parents are still teaching her to be financially responsible -- chores and a weekly allowance are status quo for most kids, famous or not.
So what, exactly, is a fair allowance for kids? Breslin's parents go the dollar-a-week-per-year route, so Abigail got a raise after her last birthday. But there really isn't a one size fits all way to attack allowance. Here are some reasonable tips for deciding on an amount. Consider:
- the age of your child
- your own income
- what your child's friends are getting
- what you expect your child to pay for
About.com has an allowance calculator for parents who like to do things the way their parents did. So, for instance, if you got $5 a week when you were a kid, it'll tell you the equivalent amount today.
How do you handle allowance in your house?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
7-03-2009 @ 4:02PM
SoMo said...I think that is great. We do a dollar a year once a week, too, which means my 7 yr old just got a raise. However, she is expected to give 10% to church and 20% to her saving account. She has a bank in her room and when it is filled she has an account at the bank.
We will see once she is older. She doesn't anything that she is responsible for buying, but if she wants a toy or something extra then she is expected to save (not hard to do when you forget that you have money and your parents buy everything you need) to get it. It has cut down on most of the gimmes, because she usually forgets what she wanted to get, anyway. Hopefully it will teach her that she doesn't need everything that she sees or what her friends have.
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7-22-2009 @ 1:07PM
Eileen said...She sure is doing better than the kids who live in the Whitehouse with their .25 a week( that's on quarter of a dollar folks). That man made $2.6Million last year and the chintzy people only give those little girls on quarter a week for an allowance. That man must truly think nothing of his children.
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