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[quote=Anonymous]I think teens should work at least in the summer but during the school year it depends on balance with studies and 14 seems too young for anything beyond babysitting or if some local small retailer would hire her for a regular weekend shift.  Personally, I started working the summer I was 15 as a mother's helper, babysat regularly until I turned 16, worked that summer in fast food, and then started an office helper job but found it was too much with a heavy junior year AP load so I had to quit.  Senior year schedule was lighter so I took a different office job that year, 2-3 hrs a day after school.

My DS had his first "job" last summer when he was 13 -- it was a volunteer staff role at a summer camp and he was there all day for 6 weeks.  He'll do the same thing this summer at 14 and he's looking forward to being paid staff when he is 16.  While the camp doesn't pay for these volunteer roles, DH and I do pay DS for the job as encouragement to continue and because his desire to do this means we aren't paying for some other activity to occupy his summer.[/quote]

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