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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 297535" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>The mentor apparently has to come to the house and is not a form of transportation. Since difficult child was in middle school, he attended YMCA day camps during the summer which met my work schedule. We had planned for him to do their "leader-in-training" program for his current age range, which has the same hours. I scheduled my vacation times to cover some of his holiday breaks from school and the rest of the school vacation, I would work part time hours. </p><p></p><p>As far as restitution, I had to cash in some of difficult child's education fund to cover me being unemployed as a result of all this **** last winter. I am paying off difficult child's restitution with that, too, and I need to get his damage to the house repaired. Now, difficult child doesn't know I only cashed in part of it- not all of it. I have told him that he will have to work to pay for his college if he wants to go- I figured that would make him a little more motivated to keep those grades up, too, because he does want to go and he knows it's possible to get scholarships. But, I didn't expect him to get a "real" job until he was 16 and I would contribute to him getting a car because I only have one. Not only am I concerned about the feasibility of this, but these Department of Juvenile Justice people do seem to steer kids towards working instead of graduating from high school- I am VERY concerned that difficult child will end up hanging out with older kids and just quitting school, thinking he can just get a good job somewhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 297535, member: 3699"] The mentor apparently has to come to the house and is not a form of transportation. Since difficult child was in middle school, he attended YMCA day camps during the summer which met my work schedule. We had planned for him to do their "leader-in-training" program for his current age range, which has the same hours. I scheduled my vacation times to cover some of his holiday breaks from school and the rest of the school vacation, I would work part time hours. As far as restitution, I had to cash in some of difficult child's education fund to cover me being unemployed as a result of all this **** last winter. I am paying off difficult child's restitution with that, too, and I need to get his damage to the house repaired. Now, difficult child doesn't know I only cashed in part of it- not all of it. I have told him that he will have to work to pay for his college if he wants to go- I figured that would make him a little more motivated to keep those grades up, too, because he does want to go and he knows it's possible to get scholarships. But, I didn't expect him to get a "real" job until he was 16 and I would contribute to him getting a car because I only have one. Not only am I concerned about the feasibility of this, but these Department of Juvenile Justice people do seem to steer kids towards working instead of graduating from high school- I am VERY concerned that difficult child will end up hanging out with older kids and just quitting school, thinking he can just get a good job somewhere. [/QUOTE]
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