Putting the Children to work!
I've taken the bull by the horns and used my skills as a human resource specialist (putting people to work skills) to put my youngest to work.
Our youngest daughter Brianne is 17. She's finishing her last year of high school and had very little life experience. She's a great girl and she's matured significantly in the last two years. Her little life experience has not prepared her to make the decision to on what she wants to do with her life. She therefore has decided to take a year off and get a job. This saddens me in some ways because I am very afraid that she will never go back and get the education that she will require to get a career and will always have just a job. I know that just having a job is not a way to really plan for the future. It's a difficult road that she is choosing and one that I will strive to make the potholes so big and ugly that she will want....no NEED....to go back to school.
Anyway, I'm still her Mom and I still love and cherish my little girl so I've asked a very good friend Neil to take my little one and put her to work for him. Neil is a great guy. She will be safe with him, but he's a difficult guy to read and the road won't always be easy for her! She will come home and tell me that he was being himself and I will help her through it. Although this job will start as a part time cashier's position...who knows, she may become interested, valuable to them and perhaps once she is out of school full time...well you never know. At the very minimum it will be experience.
On the home front, her wages will be free and clear until September when she will have to work full time and she then will have two choices to make. Choice #1) pay room and board of some predetermined amount or 2) put half of your earnings into savings for college and Mom and Dad will match it when you return to school. The choice will be hers. They won't be easy choices but the final decision will be hers.
Cause you know.....at our house NOBODY rides for FREE!
Our youngest daughter Brianne is 17. She's finishing her last year of high school and had very little life experience. She's a great girl and she's matured significantly in the last two years. Her little life experience has not prepared her to make the decision to on what she wants to do with her life. She therefore has decided to take a year off and get a job. This saddens me in some ways because I am very afraid that she will never go back and get the education that she will require to get a career and will always have just a job. I know that just having a job is not a way to really plan for the future. It's a difficult road that she is choosing and one that I will strive to make the potholes so big and ugly that she will want....no NEED....to go back to school.
Anyway, I'm still her Mom and I still love and cherish my little girl so I've asked a very good friend Neil to take my little one and put her to work for him. Neil is a great guy. She will be safe with him, but he's a difficult guy to read and the road won't always be easy for her! She will come home and tell me that he was being himself and I will help her through it. Although this job will start as a part time cashier's position...who knows, she may become interested, valuable to them and perhaps once she is out of school full time...well you never know. At the very minimum it will be experience.
On the home front, her wages will be free and clear until September when she will have to work full time and she then will have two choices to make. Choice #1) pay room and board of some predetermined amount or 2) put half of your earnings into savings for college and Mom and Dad will match it when you return to school. The choice will be hers. They won't be easy choices but the final decision will be hers.
Cause you know.....at our house NOBODY rides for FREE!
posted by Anonymous at 3:04 pm
4 Comments:
If I quit school do I have to pay back rent plus interest?
Just wondering in case I need some motivation at some point in the next four years....haha
Finishing school at 17, God that is so young. Brillant idea to remove grade 13. Half of these kids can't even be trusted to stay home by themselves let alone pick a career.
Working for Neil will be interesting, kinda like working for Linda...lol you know hard to read, high expectations of work, take your head off in one quick bite!
I wish Brianne lots of luck and hope that she makes a sound decision for herself.
I agree that no one should rise for free. Iris is gettting a paper route this summer!
A paper route.
AH hahaha
Priceless
hopefully she'll pick option 2.
she's too smart (much like my own sisters) to not go to school.
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