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Allowance known as pocket money 💰 in ordinary term is one act I value so much as a mother. And its not that I enjoyed so much of it while growing up, but because I saw how important and necessary it became when I had the opportunity to receive them from my parents.

All through the days of my primary schools 🏫 , I never received any allowance from my parents due to how they felt that their was no need for it since my lunch bag usually were packed even with some snacks for after lunch and maybe before school 🏫 closes for the day. And since food will be ready before my siblings and I gets home, my parents never saw the need.

But then, as the years progresses and we got bigger and entered into secondary schools, my father saw the need to be giving my siblings and I some weekly allowances apart from transportation. And even when we left home for boarding house, my parents will buy all that we needed but will still leave allowance with us. He believed that as almost youths we will need some pocket money 💰 to ourselves despite how we have provisions and foodstuffs. He felt that the allowances can help us to settle some emergency on our own since we are not home or that we might decide to even start little savings of our own for any thing we might want to invest on. And truly, my siblings and I did saved lots of money 💴 usually for Christmas 🎄even while we still enjoyed once in a while spendings

So I see giving allowances to children as something very important and necessary. As parents we are entitled to give allowance to our children to help bridge some gap and help them under emergency. And apart from the lunch we pack for our kids, the snacks we give to them, they need to experience buying things on their own once in a while. And not that we must give huge sum of money 💰 to our children, but its sort of experience they need at some certain age in life.

I started giving allowances to my girls immediately they started secondary school. And not because I have excess money 💴, but because I don’t want them to look and depend on others for little things as growing up children. Kids most times wants to be friends with other children due to how they see them buy other snacks at school. And sometimes the school bus might have problem of bringing them home, so they can quickly take transportation home on their own without waiting for parents to leave work to pick them up.

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Although we know that all parents are not the same in opinion about allowances . Some might not consider it necessary while other might see the need. But it’s advisable that as parents, our children should have access to little money that can help them when they are under emergency and we parents are not their nor reachable. But we should as well make our children to understand the need of not lavishing money because they have access to it.

I once experienced an incident that made me so happy 😀 for giving allowances to my girls. In 2018, and on a Saturday evening, after I have shopped for the weekend the previous Friday but was not able to buy fresh tomatoes 🍅 for my weekend stew since I usually buy from a customer of mine just around the house. I sent my girls to help me buy about 3,000.00 ($2) fresh tomatoes 🍅 and fresh peppers 🌶 , with my ATM card for POS. It happened that when they got their the POS lady was not around. But my senior daughter always carrying her little crossed shoulder bag had some money saved. She paid for the tomatoes 🍅 and pepper 🌶 and they told me what happened when they got home. I just smiled to myself.

She saved me the stress by paying with her saved up allowances , knowing I will give it back to her . And these are under the emergencies one can encounter with many others. So children who are sensible will not always lavish their allowances because they know their parents are working hard for the money. So its very necessary we see allowances giving to our children as not a way to spoil them, but a way to make them know that money 💰 is important and helps us to solve needs and not wants which they learn from parents through the way you guide them.

This is my response to the #hiveleaners featured content for week 216, edition 02.

Thanks for reading friends 😍.

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