General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

If you give a child an amount of pocket money, then you say that the child will see the amount in his or her pocket dwindling and budget accordingly, if you put that pocket money on the debit card or phone of a child, where the total is recorded in real time, so that the child can see the amount dwindling, then surely the child will budget accordingly, if it has been made clear to the child, that once the amount on the debit card or phone has been used up, then that it is it, no more money until the next time the pocket money is given, via the debit card or phone.

Yoo have always had parents of kids who 'spoil' their kids and give them money on demand, and so you will have parents who will do the same thing with a debit card or phone, such is life.

Look at it this way, in that it is not just big brother in the way of the government who can track your spending habits, if you are a parent you can see what your children have been spending their money on, because when you were young, how many times did your mum ask yo what you had spent your pocket money on, and how many times did you lie about it