Child Allowance Research Paper

When we come to a time in our lives where we decide to marry that special someone that can then lead to starting a family and then possibly children. When factoring children into our family equation we have to make many decisions on how we are to raise them to be the good children we want them to be. Some of those decisions could be teaching them to share, teaching them right and wrong, and also teaching them skills that will also help them, as they grow older. One thing parents do to help teach their children life skills is by introducing a reward or allowance system to the children. How parents can do this is when getting their children to do chores around the house they help motivate them by telling them they could get an allowance for the …show more content…
A term that can help with this is scaffolding, which refers to intentionally structuring an event to enhance a child’s learning (Flora & Segrin pg.151). How parents structure these events is by making a chore list. A chore list does help enhance a child’s learning skills by keep them in a structured order where they have specific chores that they have to accomplish by the end of the week. When they accomplish this they are awarded and the parent gives them the award. Having the child know and trust their parent will give them an award for doing something right is critical for the parent child relationship. Having a trusting bond and not a false one makes sure that they maintain a healthy relationship where they can count on one another. This helps the argument of having parents give their children allowance because they completed their chores. The parents always want to keep some sort of connection with their children especially once they hit the teenage years where they go off and try to find themselves. So it is essential that parents have this bond where they can communicate with their children and the children can also feel comfortable to communicate back to their parents and trust them that they would keep it and help …show more content…
Some may say this could be like a participation award. Where just because you showed up and were dress for the part you also get an award. The children then could be bad and misbehave and still get an award or only do the bare minimal and get rewarded in the end. When do the children learn that not everyone can win? There are going to be events in life where the children have to learn that they cannot always get their way and that they do have to work had for what they do. By just giving the children allowance for only picking up their clothes and not offering to help or go above and beyond the children are not learning how to better them for in the