Seems quite reasonable to me.
It always amazes me when parents give kids money without connecting it to work — giving a weekly allowance without having the kids earn it. As is the case with a lot of things, you have to develop good habits early. And one of the best habits or expectations to develop in kids is that they won’t get money for nothing and have to work for what they want.
As a kid I made a lot more money finding and cleaning up returnable bottles than what my parents gave me.
Chores were pretty light anyway.
Um... why would it not be in the first place? I can’t imagine just giving my kids a dime in “allowance” if they did not do chores no matter their age.
Chores are work that you do because you’re part of the team, and because somebody has to do it for the team to function.
“Allowance” should be either a fair cut of family profits (say, 10% of net above budgeted expenses; want more? reduce costs), and/or payment for doing something the team would have paid an outsider to do (wash my car, install flooring, ...).
We had to do chores to get our allowance. It was a good thing. Taught me the work ethic.
When I was a teenager, I was a free-lance artist and sign painter. I hustled jobs at small businesses in the neighborhood and made good money. (Painting windows for Christmas, etc)
When I was a little older, I played guitar on Boston Common and left the case opened.
Made some money that way too.
Now, a half century later, my self-employment is almost the same, although I give music lessons now as well.
Never got an allowance, but I DID have chores.