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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a language course abroad over the summer and live with a local family.

Otherwise, tell him to get a job. Jeez some kids are so entitled! My mom would have laughed if I had proposed volunteering or doing an unpaid internship over the summer. She'd wonder how I was going to pay my bills.[/quote]

Volunteer work makes one entitled?[/quote]

Volunteering to do what? I agree with a PP about volunteer positions -- the ones that entitled teens do -- are not generally as serious as paying jobs.[/quote]

OP here

One of the volunteer positions he is looking at (has not applied yet) involves working full time at a National Park.  Some of the work would be "office work" but some would be outdoors (average temp in that area is above 90 and humid) doing heavy lifting and hiking trails.   The schedule would include some evening and weekend work.  Volunteer so no pay, but would be offered dorm style housing (it is not in our area so he couldn't commute from our house)

To me, that doesn't sound like conditions an entitled person would consider...but I don't hire people so what do I know?[/quote]

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