Anonymous wrote:so working a job as a teen is now just a "poors" thing, got it!

My kids education is their job. My son goes to TJ and plays a sport. He has no time for a minimum wage job and that's not a bad thing. There will be pleanty of time to work for pay, but now his focus is his sport and currently Differential Equations.

My boys slept in, one is out getting a haircut, the other is doing homework/studying. Later they will watch the Super Bowl and eat snacks and pizza. They also need to clean their bathroom at some point today.

Anonymous wrote:I see few references to homework. Do they not have much?

Mine DS has a lot of homework. He gave up his sport which was a huge time demand so that he wasn't up until midnight or later doing his homework.

My 15 year old DS is somewhat introverted with very few friends. He has a friends house that he had been going to on a weekend night, lately, the friend is tired so my DS has just been at home playing xbox (with some other kids he knows). I feel so worried, is the friend dissing him? I am trying to be proactive and pushing my DS to contact other kids (he has sleep away friends in the area). He will never initiate. He seems to be home every weekend. He is not unhappy as I am always checking with him. Do other boys not do anything on weekend nights?

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Anonymous wrote:Watching a hockey game this afternoon.

Did some work outside this morning on the yard.

Listening to music in his room

Going to a friend's this evening to do who knows what. Will be home by midnight

In the snow? What work? Are you in DMV area?

The work on the yard involved a snow shovel!

Mine has a job - he teaches at Sunday school every Sunday morning. Later he will play on his sports team and go to a superbowl party.

Yesterday he did homework, got a haircut, and had a friend over to play video games.