Reply #10: As a parent, I find this to be fuzzy area

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My kids are young so I looking way forward on this (and back on my childhood as well). I don't know that a 14 year old is an adult. But an 18 year old is about as close as one could get without being one.

I got my first job at 15. I worked til I was 18. I went to college on my own money and worked 3 jobs to get there. My parents never EVER saw my grades (even though I got a 3.4). It was my business, I paid my own rent after my freshman year (I was 17 when I went to college so signing contracts waso ut of the question that first year).

Kids in college are coddled. My friends all partied because they didn't have to have jobs to get through. I had to be at a Great Harvest Bread Company at 5 am to start the bake five days a week, so I didn't party all that much. Plus I had two other PT jobs just to play for books, meal plan and gas.