Kids and Work

[MamaHen]

You are his parent, and it is up to you to decide what is best. I honestly don't see anything wrong with teaching them responsibility and a work ethic. I got a "job" when I was 12, helping clean a music shop where I took guitar lessons. Then I worked every summer as a teacher's assistant in summer school, and then had a waitressing job as well.

I know of a family that had the teens pay "rent" once they got a job, a percentage of their paycheck. What the kids didn't know, was that the "rent money" was going into a savings account, and when they moved out on their own, that money was given back to them as a "start up" gift for their new home, with interest!

As long as he can hold the job and not suffer in his schooling, I don't see the problem. It is your family, your son, the decision is yours.