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[quote=Anonymous]My 17 YO DS got a job for summer with a local business (we are friends with the owners/manager). For the past two weeks he has been going in on the weekend so he could train/be ready for the summer (his idea, not ours).

Just today he told me and DH that he decided to quit, and quit, this past Sunday. Before this, he hadn't complained about the job, and seemed pretty excited to actually get his first job. When we asked his reasoning behind him quitting, he just said that he realized that because he was working he was going to miss too much of his summer.

I am not all worked up over this, he is 17 and claimed he wanted a job so he could buy a car/pay for insurance, and we never force our kids to work. But I definitely would have preferred if he had sat down with us and told us before quitting, as I feel like this will have an effect on our house's summer schedule, and I just feel like this was a quick snap decision and he might have changed it if we got a chance to chat about it. My husband thinks it is fine, just a summer job at age 17. Am I wrong? [/quote]

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