Teach your children to work: First to work for the family to earn their keep. (chores):Then work for the community, for those less fortunate than themselves (volunteer): Finally, to work for themselves, for money; to buy the things that they want, if they want them badly enough to work for them. The worse thing you can do is to give anyone who is capable of working, money for nothing. Getting something for nothing sucks the life out of your soul. We shouldn't do that to strangers, we certainly shouldn't to that tour own kids.