Teens shoveling snow

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely LOVE the teenagers working for some extra cash. I was happy to pay them, they earned it. Great role models for my young kids to actually see other kids working hard to earn money around the neighborhood. I hope when they are teenagers they do the same.

+1.

I am one who paid $60 (on a lower quote, but they did a great job and I wanted to let them know where it counts!)

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Anonymous wrote:OP, where have you been for the last 50 years? Kids aren't going to do it for free or for whatever you decide to pay them. Get a clue.

lol this isn't Tobacco Road

OP has walked 7 miles for a sack of winter turnips to feed her brood! She lives in her home at the train yard coal chute! She lives in the barter culture of the early 1930s and she likes it!

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Not that poster, but my oldest son used to like to shovel our entire court when it snowed. Just to be nice, and because he finds shoveling "relaxing." I've sent my younger kids out to help older neighbors shovel, too, without expectation that they would be paid.

I think it's great for kids to go around and shovel for pay, but it's not that outlandish to also do an act of kindness here and there.

I think it's babying and tacky for parents to advertise for the kids, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Nowadays, you can't go knocking door to door. It isn't safe. I don't blame the parents for advertising on a listserv.

Posts like this always leave me shaking my head. The crime rate is the lowest it has been in 50 years. It's actually safer these days than it was when we were kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have an issue with teenagers earning money by shoveling snow.

I find it a bit helicopter-ish for the moms to be the ones doing the advertising and negotiating pay.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nowadays, you can't go knocking door to door. It isn't safe. I don't blame the parents for advertising on a listserv.

Posts like this always leave me shaking my head. The crime rate is the lowest it has been in 50 years. It's actually [b]safer these days than it was when we were kids.

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Exactly.

Thanks to the sensationalist 24 hour news media , so many people's perceptions when it comes to crime rates, particularly for crimes involving kids, are completely divorced from reality.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, where have you been for the last 50 years? Kids aren't going to do it for free or for whatever you decide to pay them. Get a clue.

It takes quite a bit of money to feed and clothe a teen so that he/she can shovel your driveway!

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I send my son over to shovel a senior neighbor's driveway when it snows. The neighbors has never asked us to do it. He does not expect to be paid. If other neighbors started asking for his service, I assume they would offer some $$.

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I'd like to see a teenager send out his/her own email for a change. I cringe a little when I see an email from a mom offering her child's services and then telling me to get in touch with her child directly. Surely they could handle an email.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like to see a teenager send out his/her own email for a change. I cringe a little when I see an email from a mom offering her child's services and then telling me to get in touch with her child directly. Surely they could handle an email.

Do you have personal experience dealing with Tweens and teens? its like pulling teeth to get them to talk to neighbors and earn money. I support the parents who do this for their kids. Do not judge unless you've walked in their shoes.

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Anonymous wrote:Just curious as to other's thoughts on this. The parents of teens in our neighborhood have been advertising shoveling services their kids will provide during this snowstorm.

I see the working hard and making money lesson in this, but some of it seems a bit tacky on the parent's part. One mother sent out an email instructing those interested to call for quotes! Its a teen shoveling snow! And others were saying the going rate is $20 to clear a sidewalk. What happened to doing the work and being polite enough to either just do it out of kindness or be gracious enough to take whatever might be offered?

Thoughts?

Do you have any clue how much hard work this is? Why do you think they owe anyone to do it for free? You clearly haven't gone out and shoveled snow. You are entitled.

I live in a neighborhood with large lots and long driveways. There is no way I would expect a teen to do it for me or anyone else for free. We had horrible neighbors at one time who were lazy leeches. I never saw the wife ever do any thing outside but she always expected our help if we were out doing something. She had teens from our neighborhood do her driveway then paid them much less than their rate. What an entitled ass.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the teens in my meighborhood would do that. They don't even come outside to help their parents. Lazy.

I agree. We have neighbors on one side of our street who used to get angry that my dh didn't go help them. They moved here from Fl. At the time they had 4 able bodied adults and one capable teen to shovel. We have never seen any one of them go outside and touch a single snowflake.

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Anonymous wrote:I am grateful that parents in our neighborhood posted contact info for their teens' shoveling services. It's an efficient way for them to get the word out. I negotiated with the teens directly - they were professional and anything but lazy.

This. I want to thank the parents in my neighborhood that post the information. I'm so glad to have these kids as a resource when I need it.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, I received an email stating that so and so child was doing community service for a religious reason. Said child was collecting clothing, I think and we could drop it off at such and such address in the bin out front. I thought it was a terrible lesson for the kid.

Needless to say I wont be dropping off clothes for his community service.

Oh wow. I kind of get it, but still.

I agree with you pp. I get it completely. It's resume padding for college applications.

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely LOVE the teenagers working for some extra cash. I was happy to pay them, they earned it. Great role models for my young kids to actually see other kids working hard to earn money around the neighborhood. I hope when they are teenagers they do the same.

+1