This is my son after a hard day on the job. He has a wonderful summer job. He makes good money but it is not an easy job. He drills oil wells, does geo loops heating and cooling, water wells and gas wells. There have been boys quit because they can not take it. They work out in the heat all day. He usually goes in at 4 or 5 in the morning and gets home any where from 6 to 8:30 at night. When Ryan started this summer job 3 years ago we wondered if he could take it. This was really going to tell us something about his personality. Three years later he is the one that all the full time guys want to work with because he is not lazy. It makes me so proud. He will be the man of the house one day and I am so happy to know that he is a hard worker. Just one of many qualities I feel a husband and dad need to have. Do you require your teenagers to work? If not what do they do all summer? I feel we are teaching him responsibility. What are your thoughts? Are we mean parents?
Blessings
Crystal
My oldest turns 13 next summer. He will be a farm hand with our horse & buggy neighbors. Hard work is so good for growing boys. It is also good to teach them how to save and spend money! I'd say your loving parents!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree! My children have chores and my oldest who is 14 can't wait to get a real summer job. All he can do now is odd jobs and extra things around our home, which we pay him for (not much but I feel the extras should get a bit).
ReplyDeleteMakes you feel really good to know that your son has been taught well.
It really does make me feel good. My son did stuff like that also at that age.
ReplyDeleteThanks Danielle. Other than taking his girl friend out to dinner once in a while he is saving his money for college. Makes me proud.
ReplyDeleteOk, to sound old fashioned and sexist, lol, I did not make my oldest (a girl) work. She did work around the house, helped with her siblings, and she did babysit. But that was it, no outside jobs, I really did not want her to. She did get a job when she was 17, and at college, because she needed a car and an apartment.
ReplyDeleteNow, my oldest son will be working all summer. He is teaching swimming lessons for the town, and he is doing yard work for an elderly neighbor. He also has a lot of responsibility around the house and helps with his siblings. I feel boys need to be really excellent workers, strong work ethic, because they need to provide for their families. Girls, yes, but less so. He started working for the town at 15.
Your son is really accomplished. Strong, young, healthy, handsome. He is going to make someone a great husband one day :) I have no doubt he has made you very proud indeed.
I have 3 children. They all held a job when they were teenagers. My daughter worked at a bakery when she was 16 years old. Our two sons started working on a farm when they were 14, years old. Later on one worked for a bank and the other worked at a grocery store. They all three have excellent work ethics some 20 years later. In fact my youngest son when he graduated from college got hired as an electronic engineer at a company because at the end of the interview they found out that he had worked on a farm as a young man and they hired him on the spot for that reason. He also, as a teenager, saved ALL of his farm money for three years to buy his first car. It was a beautiful black Monte Carlo SS. He was sooo proud of that car and took such good care of it because it had cost him something. (patience, hard work, a sore back and sweat) To this day he still saves if he wants something. I think it does not hurt them at all and in fact makes them stronger people in many ways. Your son looks like he is strong, healthy and happy. (you should be proud.) :D
ReplyDeleteYou must be so proud of him! Seeing this (as a mom to 4 young boys) is so encouraging. Young men with a strong work ethic seem to be a rarity these days. You must have taught him well.
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