We always provide the necessities and many extras for our kids. We don't tie their allowance to a chore at this point. As a starting point, I introduce the concept of budgets and allowance around age 6. This is usually when they begin learning about the value of money in school. We do a dollar per year old, per week. So a 6 year old would get $6 per week and so on. Recently, my daughter told me she wanted to buy catchers gear...