Just a comment about this. We told both kids they didn’t need to work. But both kids wanted to work. As busy as they both were involved with their schools activities etc they still had too much free time. They are 180 degrees different students in every way but both said the exact same thing. With working like 10 - 15 hours /week besides having their own spending money and independence it forced them to not procrastinate and get their work done since they didn’t have the time to. Have seen other kids not work and not do well in school due to not getting the time management down…
Just a different perspective and both kids surprised us with this.