Children paying "keep" when earning ...

[dksanders]

My son takes home on average £1100 per month. He buys the majority of his meat but I provide everything else. I charge him £400 a month keep to cover his rent, other groceries (eg toilet roll, cleaning stuff etc) broadband, TV and Netflix, Amazon, NowTV rental and other utilities. Internet search shows this to about the norm.

That's not unrealistic of what he'd have to pay if he was renting his own place. As it happens he's about to move out tomorrow and share a flat with a work colleague for which he's going to pay £380 per month plus his groceries, so not much difference from now.

Charging a realistic amount like this (which is irregardless of what the parent earns) is a good lesson for them and an introduction to the real world.

I've seen it mentioned that, where they can afford to do so, the parents charge this amount of keep but save it and when the child moves out, gives them the saved amount to help them perhaps buy their own place.

 

[Phil Thompson]

I do work for a private landlord and he’s renting bedsits out for £325 a month with communal kitchen.
To use appliances you have to pay lol

And it would be considered a lot lower to live in Norn Iron than the mainland.

 

[Deleted member 104825]

When I started work I paid 20% of my take home salary to my mum, as I got pay rises so did my mum.
Charging kids for their keep teaches a valuable lesson about costs and budgeting, nothing stopping you banking the money and returning it as a deposit or funding day a kitchen/bathroom - don't give cash as they'll just buy a new phone, car and holiday...

 

[The Ghost]

When I started work in '69 I worked two shifts in an engineering factory. 8-5 then 6-2 each day five days a week. I got the princely sum of £7.50p per week. At home was my Mother, Sister and Brother who I kept with this wage beleive it or not. Doesn't even seem possible to me now thinking about it. But that was the reality back then. Never mind paying keep!