Do you make your college aged kids get a job if they come home for summer?

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Do you make your college aged kids get a job if they come home for summer?

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College aged? I started bagging groceries at 15 after school, weekends, holidays, and summers. And I mowed yards in the neighborhood before that. I don't have a gap on my resume since I was 15.

If he doesn't, I'm probably going to question the source of his spending money, because I know it isn't going to be my bank account.

My parents didn't make me do anything, but they didn't give me any money if I wasn't taking a full class schedule. That equation solved itself pretty quickly.

I don't ride my college-aged kid too hard on work, but he works hard anyhow. He wants his own money to control and use as he sees fit.

If you don't pay for every little thing they want, things take their natural course. They will find a way to make money.

It's been my experience that things work a lot better with them when you're not always in crisis-mode concerning money. He's a hell of a lot cheaper now than he was as a high schooler. So that's cool with me.

I'm not a parent yet, but I would strongly encourage them getting internships in different fields of work - paid or unpaid. Summer internships are the biggest investment in their futures.

I always washed cars and cut grass in the neighborhood. Made a lot of money doing that as well.

My daughter has taken classes each summer but works in the Chemistry lab getting paid $9 an hour and works about 20 hours a week. I started working for my uncle's company in the chemical plants the summer of my senior year in high school and did that each summer and Christmas break until I finished school.

Yes. Adults should have jobs.

If it's an internship, then absolutely. Just to make spending money, no.

My son is working on a ranch right now and he is 16. Yes, he will work on school breaks.