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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 265342" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Auntie, I think it's great that your kids want jobs, and they're to be congratulated.</p><p></p><p>I do want to share with you my difficult child's experience of having a summer job. Like your DS, he is an aspie with ADHD traits. And scoliosis. And he's lazy. For that matter, like your daughter, he has bipolar.</p><p></p><p>A few years ago, difficult child decided to take over the local newspaper route in our neighbourhood. He knew the boy who had the route, who was ready to give it up, and decided that he'd be happy to take it over.</p><p></p><p>The responsibilities included:</p><p>1) Assembling all of the store flyers that were to be inserted in the paper</p><p>2) Inserting the flyer bundle into the newspaper</p><p>3) Delivering the papers</p><p></p><p>difficult child could not cope with it. The assembly process was completely beyond the abilities of his executive dysfunction to get past. So husband and I spent every wednesday and every friday afternoon after work assembling difficult child's papers and bundling them into his cart.</p><p></p><p>Then difficult child would go out on deliveries.</p><p></p><p>He would be gone for hours. </p><p>Sometimes we would find piles of newspapers abandoned under bushes around the neighbourhood.</p><p>Once or twice, we got a call from an irate parent who caught difficult child making trouble in the neighbourhood.</p><p>And once, he was brought home by the police, for throwing eggs off a bridge at passing cars.</p><p></p><p>Since then, difficult child has decided that working is not for him.</p><p>"I had a job once. It was the worst experience ever. I'm not getting a job again. Nope. Not doing that"</p><p></p><p>I don't want to rain on your parade. I just want to suggest that you make sure your DS is good and ready to deal with all of the responsibilities of a job. With that aspie mindset, if it doesn't go well it can make it that much more difficult to broach the subject later.</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 265342, member: 3907"] Auntie, I think it's great that your kids want jobs, and they're to be congratulated. I do want to share with you my difficult child's experience of having a summer job. Like your DS, he is an aspie with ADHD traits. And scoliosis. And he's lazy. For that matter, like your daughter, he has bipolar. A few years ago, difficult child decided to take over the local newspaper route in our neighbourhood. He knew the boy who had the route, who was ready to give it up, and decided that he'd be happy to take it over. The responsibilities included: 1) Assembling all of the store flyers that were to be inserted in the paper 2) Inserting the flyer bundle into the newspaper 3) Delivering the papers difficult child could not cope with it. The assembly process was completely beyond the abilities of his executive dysfunction to get past. So husband and I spent every wednesday and every friday afternoon after work assembling difficult child's papers and bundling them into his cart. Then difficult child would go out on deliveries. He would be gone for hours. Sometimes we would find piles of newspapers abandoned under bushes around the neighbourhood. Once or twice, we got a call from an irate parent who caught difficult child making trouble in the neighbourhood. And once, he was brought home by the police, for throwing eggs off a bridge at passing cars. Since then, difficult child has decided that working is not for him. "I had a job once. It was the worst experience ever. I'm not getting a job again. Nope. Not doing that" I don't want to rain on your parade. I just want to suggest that you make sure your DS is good and ready to deal with all of the responsibilities of a job. With that aspie mindset, if it doesn't go well it can make it that much more difficult to broach the subject later. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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