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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An allowance? She’s 18. My kids stopped getting an allowance when they got their first jobs. Where did she work this summer? My kid works and pays for his own gas, insurance, and for all of his own fun stuff. [/quote]

Why do people act like a summer job is some magic bullet which teens humble and grateful? If anything, it makes them less accountable, gives them chances to duck off, make excuses, claim to be too tired, too busy, and the money in their pocket makes them feel like they can tell you to buzz off because they have their own money now and don't need to pretend to be nice for a $50 or $100 Venmo transfer.[/quote]

you sound absolutely nuts … [/quote]

I grew up middle class -- everyone from the class president to total screw ups and drug addicts had summer jobs. A high school kid with summer job reveals absolutely nothing about character, maturity, or ambition.[/quote]

Perhaps. But trying to keep an 18 year old from getting a job the summer before they go to college so you can control them is all kinds of weird and wrong [/quote]

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