What are your 15-17 year old boys doing today?
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Anonymous
Wow. Says a lot about the bubble you live in. |
Anonymous
Basketball & Xbox mom here: Yes, my son does work some on the weekends running the scoreboards at the rec league games. |
Anonymous
I teach in a Title One high school and very few of my students have jobs. Some of them have summer jobs through the city's Youth Works program. I grew up in a low SES area and not many kids had jobs. Some had summer jobs but most didn't. |
Anonymous
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Son stayed in bed on his phone until about noon then went to Tyson's with a group of friends, has indoor soccer game this weekend, then more soccer or FIFA on Xbox.
He has several friends who are low SES that work in fast food places, or restaurants during the school year. We will go out to eat with family tomorrow and watch Superbowl. |
Anonymous
In the snow? What work? Are you in DMV area? |
Anonymous
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Woke late. Had request for special dishws for lunch and dinner. Exercised on the treadmill. Played video game with a friend. Working on school assignments and an essay. Helped me cleanup somewhat. At least more than his lazy sister. |
Anonymous
| Mine works with younger kids in a sport - couple of hours on Sunday afternoons. That works around hanging with friends, spending time with girlfriend, and homework. |
Anonymous
| We had a basketball game and a box lacrosse game. He worked out as well. Chores and maybe an hour of video games. We watched a movie as a family and he was exhausted and went to be at 1030pm since he bas to be at lacrosse early this morning helping with the little kids and then has lacrosse himself in the early afternoon. Sports keep my teen busy and tired. Just the way I like it. |
Anonymous
Same her, except I'm a guidance counselor. Very few kids work. I wish more did would keep them out of trouble. WIOA is in our school trying to encourage work now as a way out. Idle time is dangerous. The only work I see that is the money maker kids want to do sadly is drug dealing. 14-15-16yr olds and sadly some prostitution. There are some job opportunities and lots of resources and little interest. So in a nutshell, this is not a economic thing, but a teen thing. Kids dont have time in some circumstances and in most all circumstances dont have the drive. I go home to my high SES community and many of the kids are busy with sports and very high expectations for academic rigors. Sorry for the typos...awful phone. |
Anonymous
| so working a job as a teen is now just a "poors" thing, got it! |
Anonymous
My son has had a job in the summer since 7th grade. Fall he plays soccer, winter he volunteers for special Olympics, spring is baseball. 2 of my sons played D1 sports the one still in HS won't. If he quit a sport I would have him get a job. |
Anonymous
It's for kids that don't play HS sports or do plays. |
Anonymous
mine does. He is 15 and is at an ice cream shop-usually works Sat 9-4, and sometimes 10-3 Sundays but he is at a model un conference all weekend. |
Anonymous
my 15 year old son is a tennis player so off season he has a bit more time since they practice during the week. He is also part of a childrens theater and takes time off from tech week thru performance dates. He does 7 shows total over two weekends. They rehearse Tues and Sun nights so he has time to work. His employer is super lenient with him as long as he tells them in advance. He also needs to take time off for debate and model un. He likes to stay busy and does better in school when he is scheduled. |
Anonymous
| I see few references to homework. Do they not have much? |