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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If no job, what's he gonna do all summer?

And really, the only acceptable answers are

- find another job
- spend 20-40 hours a week volunteering somewhere.

But chillin on his phone isn't an option[/quote]

Yup.

Personally, I would talk to him about having some responsibility for the summer.  If he doesn't choose one of these, you can assign him household projects and chores to do.  I have plenty of projects on my honey-do list and if my teenage child was not working, I would assign them to him.  I would buy the supplies and then he can Youtube how to do the job.  He could clean the basement and sort everything into "trash" (like old toys), donate and keep piles which we could review in the evenings,  We have bins of old school art projects that need to be photographed and stored on a disk drive and then trashed; he could decide on which ones to keep, which ones to archive and trash.  He could go through the pantry and the food storage, and pull out and trash everything that is past expiration date, take the old plastic shopping bags to the supermarket to the donate/return bin, take batteries and CFLs to the MOMs to recycle and so on.  Tons and tons of household chores that get to be done if he's going to be home without a job.  We also have a bathtub/shower that the caulk needs to be stripped and redone.  We have a place where a tree died, he can clear the old stump, and we can buy a new sapling from the nursery and he can plant it and water it.  And so on.

So, his choice, but I agree that sitting around on his phone is not a choice.  And he doesn't get to borrow the car for hanging out during the summer.  He was supposed to earn money for a car.  If he isn't, then he only uses the car to run errands for us like the above chores, or errands like doing the weekly shopping, etc.
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YOU. are. AWESOME.

All of what you said, x infinity. [/quote]

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