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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not let him. He has his entire life to work. If he has that much free time that he could do a job then he needs to be involved in an extracurricular activity. The expectation at that age, for our family, is to get good grades, participate in extracurricular activities outside of the home and to spend time with family. My children worked their senior year of high school with a half day schedule. [/quote] My parents said that. I joined a bunch of clubs that I don’t have any memories of and played a walk on sport that I socially enjoyed but did for a while. I also got a work permit and applied to jobs I could walk to when I turned 15 and by senior year, dropped all of the school stuff and had two part time jobs. I loved working and loved my jobs. I took pride in that and learned more about real world things and customer service from working than I ever did from extra curriculars. Let him do it if you trust the uncle. [/quote]
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