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The Sports Junkies

Do You Give Your Kids An Allowance?

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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From 12/03 Hour 4: The Sports Junkies break down giving money to their kids.

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0:00.0

Welcome back. Chucky's coming to you live on 106, 7 The Fan and the Team 980.

0:06.6

Now, Kakes' kids are all grown up, vicious kids are all grown up, E.Bs are mostly grown up. You still got one in the house.

0:14.3

I've got an 8-year-old, though. So this story applies to me, I guess, the most. It has to do with an allowance.

0:20.7

Okay. My kid doesn't have an allowance. I don't think any of my kids had an allowance,

0:26.4

to be honest with you. But 61% of parents say their kids are more financially responsible

0:32.0

with money than they were at the same age with children now earning an average.

0:37.0

It's blew me away. Of $52 per month in allowance.

0:41.4

That's not that much.

0:43.4

$52 a month?

0:45.2

I thought an allowance was like a couple bucks a week.

0:48.4

Maybe $5 a week.

0:49.8

That's like $13 a week.

0:51.3

Might not get you anything, but it's just to do your chores.

0:54.9

Two bucks a week. Well, get you anything, but it's just to do your chores. Two bucks a week?

0:56.3

Well, what age is we talking about?

0:58.2

Literally couldn't get a cheeseburger for that.

1:00.2

Probably varies.

1:03.1

That's not that much.

1:04.1

My kids don't have an allowance.

1:06.0

We're pretty generous with them.

1:07.9

You know, pretty much get... I never gave my kids allowances. I don't think I ever really had to set allowance for them. When they were in college, my wife, on the down low, was feeding them money. I had no idea. So they kind of had an allowance then. She was feeding them a lot of money. I thought I was being a Mr. Big Silly, giving him like a huntsky, you know, after a game or something.

1:29.2

Hey, cheap skate, mom. It's fucking us. Mom, she's already set in 500. Yeah. I didn't even know that scheme was going on. So your kids didn't have like stuff they had to do and then. I mean, like I think I got I think I got $10 a month to like take out the trash or something.

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