brad123
Distinguished Member
How many of you have kids over 16 who have regular jobs. We have a 16 year old girl who shows no sign of wanting to get a job to earn some money, rather sit on her bed on her phone. The 18 year old boy has a job he can do as many hours as he wants in a work yard but last 4 months has chosen to hardly go in. Meaning his income is about £20 a week which lasts 2 minutes. He's wanting to go out more and do things but he's going to have no money to do this.
Are we expecting too much of them to go out and earn themselves some spending money? The eldest boy has a job he can earn as much as he want as he is part time doing A levels and he used to do 20 hours a week ish, now he does 4/5 if that and isn't bothered. Come summer when all their friends are doing stuff as they work part time then ours won't be able to do anything and we aren't going to give them money as they have ample free time to earn spending money doing a part time job.
We are trying to teach them about life and things aren't handed to you on a plate and that they are at an age where they could and maybe should be working part time to develop and earn some money.
Are we expecting too much of them to go out and earn themselves some spending money? The eldest boy has a job he can earn as much as he want as he is part time doing A levels and he used to do 20 hours a week ish, now he does 4/5 if that and isn't bothered. Come summer when all their friends are doing stuff as they work part time then ours won't be able to do anything and we aren't going to give them money as they have ample free time to earn spending money doing a part time job.
We are trying to teach them about life and things aren't handed to you on a plate and that they are at an age where they could and maybe should be working part time to develop and earn some money.