105. Should You Give Kids an Allowance or Make Them Get Jobs?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are libeling your entire profession. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Antela Duckworth. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Stephen Dubner. |
| 0:09.8 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
| 0:13.3 | Today on the show, does giving your child an allowance actually teach them financial |
| 0:17.9 | responsibility? |
| 0:18.9 | He just can't give a kid $5 and be like, gee, they spent most of it. |
| 0:28.4 | Angela, we've got an email from one Valerie Boils. |
| 0:32.2 | Oh, I can't hear the name Valerie without thinking of Amy Winehouse. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh, is there a song called Valerie? |
| 0:39.7 | Amy Winehouse, who died young from, I think, an overdose. |
| 0:44.4 | That I know. |
| 0:45.4 | Was an amazing singer. |
| 0:47.5 | Hang on, here we go. |
| 0:49.0 | Let's hear some Amy. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, it's good. |
| 0:59.6 | I miss her. |
| 1:01.5 | That is not Valerie's email, but that is definitely relevant to the name Valerie. |
| 1:07.5 | Correct. |
| 1:08.5 | Sorry, that was a tangent. |
| 1:09.5 | So Valerie Boils here, she writes to say, Stephen and Angela, my husband and I have been |
| 1:14.3 | discussing starting an allowance with their children ages 10 and 8. |
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