According to research from Abbey Banking, Britain?s bad boys and ghastly girls were made to pay through the pocket for misbehaving this year.
Indeed 41% of Britain?s 11-15 year olds had their pocket money docked at some point during 2007, clocking up an average of three weeks worth of punishments between them, costing an average of ?8.92 per week.
In total, punishing parents docked a massive ?40 million?s worth of their kids? allowance in 2007 ? enough money to put more than 220,000 Nintendo Wiis under the tree this Christmas.
Abbey?s research also shows that Britain?s naughtiest children are to be found in the North, where 45% of 11-15 year olds had pocket money stopped in the past year.? The best-behaved children are in the Midlands, where only one-in-three (36%) children were docked pocket money.
And, playing to stereotype, it seems that boys are officially naughtier than girls – with 44% of them having their pocket money docked in 2007 compared to 37% of girls.
