Ought Parents to Give Children Pocket Money?
We live in a commercial society. Everything that we use is merchandise. In the commercial world the media is money. Therefore, money is very important to us. Earning money and spending money are big problems not only to the adults but also to the kids.
Kids have a long way to go in their lives. What they will be depend on the influence that they get before the age of 20. We must give them positive influence during their childhood.
We should give a kid a little money when he is 9 years old. For instance, we can give a kid 10 yuan every month, and ask him to write us a report on how he uses the money. This can give him a right idea of how he should use the money.
We also should give the kids some chances to earn money, by which means we can show them that earning money is not easy, and they should spend the money carefully.
The most important point is that we must tell the kids that money is not everything in our lives. There are lots of things that we can not buy with money, such as health and love.
Consequently, the best we could do to provide the kids with a correct understanding of money is let them approach money closely. We should give a little money to the kids and tell them what money is at all.
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文章首段講了在當今的商業社會裏，錢對大人都是個問題，何況孩子呢。第一段告訴我們兒童及青少年時期的生活方式將影響他的一生，所以在隨後的幾段裏，作者建議我們給孩子一定量的零花錢，但要教會他們如何花錢以及錢不是萬能的道理。文章構思巧妙，布局合理，思路清楚，論述連貫。
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父母應該給孩子零花錢嗎?
我們生活在商業社會。我們用的每樣東西部是商品。商品領域的媒介是金錢。所以錢對我們來說很重要。掙錢和花錢，不論是對于成年人，還是小孩子，都是兩個很重要的問題。
孩子們需要走的生活道路很長。他們最終會是什麽樣子，依賴于他們在20歲之前所受到的影響。在童年時代，我們一定要給他們好的影響。
當孩子到九歲的時候，我們可以給他們一點錢。比如說，每月給他十塊錢並要求他門面匯報這些錢是怎樣花的。這可以教會他怎樣正確地花錢。
我們還可以給孩子提供掙錢的機會。這可以告訴他們掙錢是不容易的，應當節儉。
最重要的是，我們應該告訴孩子們錢不是萬能的。還有很多東西，像健康和愛，是金錢不能代替的。
因此，要讓孩子們對錢有一個正確的認識，最好的辦法就是讓他們同錢密切接觸。我們應該給孩子們一點錢並告訴他們錢到底是什麽。