Task：Discuss the advantages and disadvantages that pocket money brings for the growth of children.

　　思路解析：

　　好处：

　　1. 支付日常所需。

　　2. 培养理财能力。

　　坏处：

　　1. 培养懒惰和啃老思维。

　　2. 购买垃圾食品，影响健康。

　　3. 购买娱乐和玩具，影响学习。

　　4. 携带金钱的小孩容易成为社会犯罪袭击目标。

　　参考范文：

　　In a fast-paced age full of intense competition, parents have become used to giving children pocket money for supporting daily life, and whether the children are considerable enough to make correct use of these money or not has been an heated social issue. Some people think money spending can build up some positive personalities like self-reliance and economic mindfulness. Others, however, hold an opposed view that money abuse might be very risky. In my opinon, I am in favor of the former, and I will explore possible reasons as below.

　　Firstly, Pocket money provides more opportunties for children to be engaged in real-world socilaztion. For example, when paying for bus fares, food, stationery and books, students would consciously observe, compare and learn basic social products and services, as well as talk and listen to bus drivers, shop clerks and other customers. These experience by spending money helps to foster independence of students, from self-care conciousness to decision-making ability to interpersonal skills. Moreover, using small money process imparts students to manage money,learning making budgeting, calculating and significative investing——in short, obtaining financial knowledge in advance. It will also give children a certain freedom to select what they want, make them aware of the rules about the equivalent exchange. Without pocket money for students, they may ignore banking knowledge, have no sensitivity of economy and might fall into unbalanced budget planning, deficit and even credit crisis.

　　However, the potential demerits caused by money misusing should never be ignored. For one thing, there is always a big concern that by money, children with lack of self-control or mature mind can have an easy access to fastfood, soft drinks and candy, all of which containing high-level fat, calories and sugar. The comsuption of these junk traps children into chronic physical problems like obesity, high-blood presssure and heart disease. Besides, the most worrying aspect is that children are very likely to misspend money on movies, concerts of pop music, and Video games like Nintendo or Playstation, these entertainment will distract students from the aim of studying.

　　In conclusion, I believe it is reasonable to give limited amount of money to children, because it can teach them social skills and finance-planning mind. However, much pocekt money beyond daily basic costs is problematic, for it might result in health problems and an amusement-oriented mind.