Children and Money
LISTENER: Is it a good plan to give money to a child? Miss Dalton: Well, surely, it’s reasonable to give a material reward for a task well done, and money is a very convenient form of material reward. It’s also useful to start learning its value early in life, and only by experience does this come.
Listener: Well, if the money is a wage, not pocket-money, should Tom and Elaine be allowed to spend it entirely as they like. Is it theirs without any limits or tags? Miss D,; Isn’t money to be treated like any other power, whether it be climbing, reading or talking? Until taught by experience and by people, the children do not know how best
to use it. Therefore, some form of guidance is necessary, and some limits set. But a considerable proportion should be theirs to experiment with, to make mistakes with, to learn with if you like, without any awkward questions being asked.-(Miss D. E. Dalton in "Conversations by the Fireside: The Place of Rewards," 3YA, June 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 106, 4 July 1941, Page 5
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177Children and Money New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 106, 4 July 1941, Page 5
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