After eating free good food, living in a free comfortable apartment, getting free nice clothes to put and living a well comfortable life based on my provision as a parent, is it still proper for me to go extra miles of giving an allowance to my child? Is that a waste, means of over pampering or actually the needful to do?
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There is a way you would have lived your life and with those experiences you have while being a child, growing up to become an adult and having or creating a great family that you've always imagined, you would be having two options, that is either your children live the way you lived your life as a child or vouch and vowed never to make them taste such life and experiences.
It's mostly rampant here in Africa especially in my country where you get to see parents especially mothers affirming and beating their chest that "never will my child go through what I went through".
Not every child will be outspoken to demand for their personal needs and I learnt that through my own personal life. I wasn't a child who was ready to disturb or ask my parents for other things I needed. Yes, I lived under their roof without paying a dime for rent, I ate free delicious meal, wore free clothes that I don't know how much they cost, got what I needed in school on a platter of Gold without knowing the stress it took to get them for me, so what else could I need again as a child?
But trust me that even after these whole provision, I was still getting a little amount as allowance to buy myself something in school at breaktime period and it was my means of saving up to get whatever I wanted to get for myself outside the box of my parents basic provisions.
So for me, having my children which will be my best gifts in life, I'm never going to make them lack in anyway cos that's one of the major reasons I am gonna be working hard you know...
I would enjoy life and they would as well. Not in the sense that they will be over pampered and probably turning a nuisance but providing for their basic needs would not stop me from giving them enough allowance for their upkeeps.
Giving that I experienced that myself, I know the worth of those personal and extra allowances especially for a child who is not always free to open up on what they need.
So yeah its fine that giving them the allowance is a stretch because as a parent, you can't be there at every point of your child's life and making them lack in any way might expose them to some shady act which I won't pray for as a proposed parent.
It's not bad to give our children extra allowances cos even God gave us the room to gather wealth after giving us life to breathe as human.
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