POCKET-MONEY WISDOM.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 November 1924, Page 8

POCKET-MONEY WISDOM.

It is much wiser to give children, say, from the age of fourteen, a fixed pocket-money allowance, rather than haphazard largesse. Especially in these days, when our very modern kiddies cherish the idea that there can be no real enjoyment unless money is spent. Making them responsible for their own amusement and hobby expenditure teaches them the value of money, and they acquire some sort of discrimination and self-control as a preparation for the days when they will bo apportioning their own incomes. The girls who, passing through the adolescent stage from fourteen io seventeen, grow more fussy about their appearance, must be made to understand that out of their weekly allowance they must buy the little sartorial accessories they crave. New slides or hair-ribbons, for instance; a new fanev handkerchief or collar. The little trifles that Mademoiselle sees exploited by a small friend" and pines to acquire for herself. Far better let her purchase these oddments herself than have Mother constantly besieged for this or that “latest novelty” according to the classroom standards. She will soon learn to distinguish between rubbishy gewgaws, and worth-while trifles, when she realises that pocket-money i fi not elastic and must be sagaciously spent.