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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op I am, what your son would consider, rich. I can afford all the things your son wants plus what you've bought him plus what you've gone without. And you know what? Both my college kids had jobs all through high school. Plus during college. Sometimes as few as ten hours a week, but they work their asses off. 
 [b]Stop giving your son so much. You should  not be working harder for him than he is for himself.[/quote][/b]

This.  I agree with PP that your son doesn't feel like you are serious.  I knew my parents did not have the money and my mom was upfront that she wasn't going to mortgage the house and eat ramen noodles to send us to college. On a limited income we lived in a decent school distract and were able to participate in school activities.  At a certain point, my parents felt it was up to us, they gave us a good start.  So not having a job didn't even occur to me because the tuition would not have been paid and I would have no books.  I'm sure there was advice our mom gave us to help pay for school etc that we didn't follow but that was fine because we had to live with the consequences.  My mom was fair and didn't do for one child what she didnt do for another and stuck to her word.

BTW, I went to school with wealthy kids and I remember they would be holding on to parent weekend squeezing the bottom of their shampoo bottle because spending money and extras were on the kids but parents might bring toiletries when they visited.[/quote]

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