yeah real life is different for everyone…but the point of trying to expose your kid to the outside world at a young age is so he/she can REALIZE and APPRECIATE the differences amongst these jobs, so he doesn’t look down upon a farmer or shoe-polisher when he has that cush job 12 yrs down the road. or he doesn’t scoff at a “lowly cashier” cuz his/her parents could afford everything he ever needed. so he doesn’t know or care for how much it may mean to that cashier when he puts his bag of chips back in the correct aisle of the store.
so that when the 21 yr old housewife getting married to a surgeon sees her husband’s paycheck, she sees and understands all the hard work he put into his job n education and not just the tons of designer outfits she can go buy this weekend.
i’m pretty much sure that no parent on the planet actually needs the $300 a month income that a 16yr old kid brings in with his part time job. its only to instill a sense of responsibility and integrity into the child from a young age. i’ve worked since i was 16 and i never used the “its my money” line and my parents never used the “buy it with your own money” line on me 