I do like to adopt an Old Man’s voice and tell my children, “When I was young, kids used to have jobs in High School and College. Those were the days. You never see that anymore ...”
I helped my boys through Technical College. I flat out REFUSED to give them one DIME if they were going to study some Liberal Arts BS.
I told them I would help them financially ONLY IF they were learning to fix things that were broken or build new things that people needed.
Worked like a charm. More parents should try this. ;)
If they could get jobs it would be much more difficult to turn them into wards of the state.
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