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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]What can an adult (college student or not) do that a teen can't?[/b]  What difference would the same number of references make from a teen versus an adult?  If you're talking about hiring a teen who you would need to drive home afterward, who would need to wait for a ride from their parent or who had done very little babysitting and had few good references, I would understand dropping the rate.  Otherwise, what's the difference?[/quote]

Not to be snarky, but there are a lot of differences between a teen vs. an adult.

Think back to when you were sixteen. You mindset, maturity level and life experience was so much different [i]then.[/i]

An adult is by far more responsible, mature and overall just more experienced than a teen.

A teen is still a kid in many ways, they have not experienced many important things that an adult has.[/quote]

Depending on the teen, they might have adequate experience.  I babysat large sibling groups for 72+ hours straight as a teen, and there wasn't a single difference between what I could do at 16/17 versus 19 and in college.

My suggestion was to compare the number of references and if they are similar for a 16 or 17 year old as compared to a college student, look for whoever seemed the best regardless of age.  If the teen is more mature than the college student (which is individual and not based on age), why should the teen be paid less?[/quote]

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