Get a job during school holidays
When I was a teenager, I would usually get a part-time job during school holidays.
Working during school holidays had enriched me with life experience.
There would always be pros and cons in everything we do and we have to balance them to see whether our children need the exposure.
Two years ago, I cut off my older son's pocket money after he completed his O-Level examination since it was going to be a long break for him.
He was forced to get a job to earn his own pocket money.
He managed to earn enough to get himself a laptop and mobile phone in the end.
The feeling of getting things using their own money is what we cannot give as parents.
This short article is mainly going to share some of the benefits of getting youngsters to work.
Extra money
Teenagers and children can have many desires. They may constantly ask parents to buy things for them.
They may not understand the blood and sweat that parents have put in to bring the income and comfort to the house.
By getting them to work during school holidays, they can earn the extra cash to get the things that they want.
Most teenagers actually value the things more when they get these things through their own effort.
They experience the time and effort needed to earn. Through earning, they learn to understand the true value of how to be wise with their own money.
Money does not drop from the sky and it needs to be earned.
Education
Some teenagers may not have a purpose or aim to put in the effort to study.
They may have studied for the sake of studying since young.
There are some who suddenly have the awakening of the reality of life after experiencing the need for better education after working part-time jobs.
Without proper education, there can be very limited job opportunities and the need for more physical ones when our education level is low.
Nevertheless, getting educated does not mean a definite success as education provides the additional help to assist them with more opportunities and knowledge to cope with future demands.
With the real-life experience, many teenagers develop their need for education and further their studies whenever they can.
Social experience
Our teenagers may be well protected these days. Their main social friends are their classmates and people around them.
Through working, they can learn to work with people of different backgrounds.
They can learn how to communicate more effectively in an adult environment. This can lead to understanding of how important are the oral skills that their schools have always given them opportunities to exhibit.
They do need to understand and discern the bad things that they should not pick up since it is a lot more complicated in the real world.
The social experience can provide them with what schools can never provide in a real world.
Time management
In a real world, employees are not allowed to be late for work. I do face quite a number of students who are late for school regularly.
Our teenagers can learn how to manage their time more effectively when they want to have their leisure and yet the extra cash through working.
My older son sleeps late very often and he argued that it is very common for teenagers in his school to sleep at 2 a.m.
It is hard to verify this fact but he can learn the need to balance his sleep time, play time and work time leading to better time management.
I do see him making the effort to organise his things for his studies after his work experience during school holidays.
In conclusion
I have stated a few benefits of working but there are the negatives that I have not discussed in this article.
As parents, we can act as life mentors to our children to advise them what we think since most teenagers do not like us to nag or tell them what to do.
We have to discuss things about life as though they are our equal and not forcing them to follow what we say as it can backfire.
It is not easy to be the 21st century parents since social media and other influences lead to their need for greater freedom.
There is no fixed way and every child needs to be handled differently.
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