Children generally rarely have the opportunity to earn money, apart from their pocket money. Therefore, it is difficult to see the difficulties associated with receiving a wage for their work. If they can experience this activity in their home as housework, they can understand the appreciation for their parents. From this point of view, I believe that children should receive an allowance for their housework. I hold this opinion for two reasons, which I will explain in the following essay.
First of all, reward always plays a central role for children when it comes to doing something. In order to get their reward, they make an effort to do something, and this encourages children to grow more and more. For example, when I was in elementary school, I didn’t like studying at all, even though I got a good grade in every exam. This was mainly because my parents set a goal for me every time, and if I met the requirements, I could get a reward from my parents. Sometimes I could not meet the target, but that is an incentive to study hard for the next exam. From this experience, I strongly believe that a reward motivates children, and this is true not only for studying but also for housework.
Secondly, receiving a certain reward is a good preparation for entering the real society. Usually, children do not have the opportunity to get their own salary and always get pocket money from their parents. Therefore, they do not know how hard it is to earn money and how many hours adults have to work to get $100. So it must be a good opportunity to learn the difficulties of earning money. If they get an allowance, they can spend the money on anything, and they will go back to work to feel satisfied. It is worth teaching them this, and parents should teach them this, because children cannot understand this properly from school textbooks.
In summary, their parents should give them an allowance for housework because it will motivate them to help their parents more, and it will also teach them the difficulties of earning money.