Helping Kids Find Summer Jobs

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Having a job, no matter whether it's scooping ice cream or tutoring a child in reading, will teach your child valuable skills--responsibility, punctuality, discipline and collaboration. Any job will give your child a good dose of reality beyond school, too. So how do you find a job? Friends, relatives, word of mouth, posting signs, the Internet--what's worked for you and your child? What jobs have proved to be the most rewarding and how did you find them? Do you give your child guidance on what to do with the money she earns?

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I started working when I was 13 years old, and I know my son wants to go to work, but the only thing holding him back is that they have a law that prevents them from working until they come of age which is 16 years old.

Anyone from Lawton, OK? How do you get around the child work laws. Here in Ok the kids are not allowed to go to work until they are 16yrs old. Is there a way around that?

i was 15 when i got my first job it was in our towns libray and i loved working with books because i love to read. i tell my kids that reading is so much fun and now my oldest wants to become a teacher when she finishes school.so its never to early to get a job it helps with the values and social skills.

i agree that having a job teaches kids values my 12 year old in the summer helps this elderly woman with her shopping and cleaning and she pays her about 4.00 dollers a hour but she has learned how to save and manage her money and she loves the job.

Good to know and I will have to rethink my initial decision. She has been babysitting for two years, in our state they go through classes and become certified as babysitters...however there are not a lot of clients where we live. My daughter wants to work at a clothing store so I will open the discussion again with a more open mind. Thanks for all the advice.

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