A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Nick Kugelman titled "Don't give your kids an allowance." The speaker argues against giving children an allowance for chores, framing chores as part of the responsibility of living in the household ("payment for living in my house"), and contrasts modern practice with historical expectations that children contributed to household survival. The tone is conversational and argumentative, emphasizing responsibility rather than punitive labor.
You're actually going to make your kids poor by giving them an allowance? It teaches them the opposite of what you want. My kids don't get an allowance for doing their chores. The chores is payment for living in my house. Do you sleep in a clean bed tonight? Yeah. Did you get food yesterday? Yeah. You got to understand, all I'm asking you for, all this stuff, is for you to keep your space clean, to do your own laundry, and to help out around the house. A hundred years ago, if you were a child in a family before you went to school, school, and you went out freezing and you did the chores, because if you didn't, you didn't have a place to sleep. It's not harsh, man. I'm not making them work on a farm for 12 hours a day.
