My daughter now 24 played soccer on scholarship at a Junior College. Books and tuition, nothing to sneeze at.
We always insisted she work and carry her portion of the car insurance and cell phone. Other parents thought we were awful to expect this of her.
After she finished at the Junior College she came home and worked. We told her we were not going to pay for her to finish her degree. Around a year and a half later she married (a Godly man) and is working again, putting away enough to pay for her last two years.
Even in this economy she has never been without a job. Waiting tables, babysitting, counselor at a local space camp. Whatever it took.
She agrees that many her age don't know how to work, manage money or time.
Pardon my ignorance. What is a space camp? Is it where the kids take up space? Do they teach them to fill the space between their ears?