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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, what do you think?[/quote]

I'm the bad mother from the other thread who's letting her college-bound 17 year old wait tables. So clearly I cannot be trusted to have an opinion on this.

I do know that I would be deeply worried if my kid wanted a job working with power tools, or in isolation with unknown adults. I won't say I wouldn't allow it-- she has to grow into her own self somehow-- but I was very careful when she started babysitting. They checked her references, I checked theirs. [/quote]

You allow her to work in a restaurant but using a drill is where you draw the line? [/quote]

Yes. I worked in restaurants starting the day after I could drive myself there.

Two guys from my HS were killed at summer jobs involving poorly maintained power tools and total lack of training.

I taught her how to use household power tools myself. But (as I'm sure you have no inkling) a professional grade weed whacker is a very different device from the $50 battery powered ones we all use to trim the treebox. [/quote]

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