@itsgettingreal17 I would like my DD to work unless she has things to do like research, volunteering, academics that prevent her from working. I am more interested in her preparing for graduate school rather than working at this point. It also depends on which university she goes to (and how much the fees turns out to be).
If she has to work towards tuition, What is a typical amount that college students can earn without feeling overwhelmed with the hours
@Dave_N Kicker looks very interesting, and kind of what I was picturing. D will be commuting by train to her internship this summer (2 days/wk) so that would be a good opportunity to start exploring these, and keeping her off Snapchat. :-q Skimm also looks like a good one…thanks @carpoolingma (I think it was you).
Yowzah, I didn’t even realize it is a Friday the 13th!
OMG, snapchat is the worst. Younger son19 is into it. Older son17 not into it at all. What a stupid waste of time.
Younger son must receive 50 messages a day from random girls in school on snapchat. Such a stupid waste of time!
( old guy rant ) . I probably would’ve loved that as a 14 year old boy too 
I try to convince him every day to stop. He tells me to leave him alone because he is doing very well in school. My older son even tells him it’s dumb, but there is no way he’s giving it up any time soon.
Selfie/Text…Selfie/Text…Selfie/Text…Repeat a bazillion times.
Son is a snap chatter, too. I agree @rightcoaster, snapchat can be pretty awful. And s has a “stalker” from school that constantly posts on his story and texts him. I’ve noticed that snap chat has seemed to slow down a bit, but not sure if that’s just because the last few weeks have been so study/test heavy.
@RightCoaster have your kid switch faces with you on Snapchat. It’s hysterical
@itsgettingreal17 - We are not expecting our S to work in college. 3 reasons, 1. we will cover his costs 2. he needs use his free time to get required research and volunteer hours for med school admissions 3. needs to have some fun
lol @RightCoaster I always tell D that Snapchat and Tumblr are the truest evidence to me that I’m just getting old, because I just do not get it. We do have a rule that D can only use Snapchat where there is WiFi available because that service sucks up data like nobody’s business!
Ah, selfies. D gets a hold of my phone, takes a ridiculous selfie, and sets it as my wallpaper. From day to day I never know what’s going to show up and it always cracks me up.
@Hades321, 10 hours/week has been very doable for my kids.
@MotherOfDragons i dont have snapchat, so I don’t even know what that means, lol. i barely do any social media.I have facebook, but I primarily use it as a newsfeed to stay up to date on things Im interested in, and I only check it sporadically so Im not completely out of touch.
My son has a stalker girl too that has basically been chasing him around for 3 years. Fortunately nothings come from it, but I’ve had to give him the don’t “do anything stupid " speech a few times. Some kid at school got in a lot of trouble for posting a pic of himself " streaking” during a half time ceremony. Kid got in trouble and my kids learned a valuable lesson at his expense.
Son17 is more discreet and less socially motivated. I don’t worrry about him too much. Younger son is going to be more of a challenge, he’s a good kid, but much more socially aware and likes to have fun. Need to to keep an eye on him.
@RightCoaster your kid will know what it means-just ask him to do a face swap with you on snapchat-you only need his phone to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLO14zXjyA
That’s a grandma doing face swap with her grandson. Be warned-she is laughing SO LOUDLY! Mute your computer before you click on the link.
WSJ since Murdoch bought it. Agree 100%. The headlines became so NY Post-like: ‘Cash before Chemo’.
Having said that, I still skim the paper version. I cannot stand their online site, whereas I am finding myself reading more of the NYT online than in paper. I should probably cancel the paper subscription b/c it is expensive, but the NYT has been my home delivery paper forever, including when I lived in Boston.
Re: jobs on campus. Son does not work while on campus but works a lot in the summer to earn money.
I worked on campus school b/c I needed spending money (books, clothing, travel home, beer money, sorority dues…it was a lot). I found that working gave my day structure. Three-four hours of lecture left the entire day wide open, so having to work a couple of hours here or there forced me to get organized.
I had forgotten that scholarships are taxable. Are they taxable at student’s rate or parent’s rate. There is probably an entire thread on that subject somewhere.
@CT1417 the non-academic part of the scholarship is taxable at the student’s rate. The part that pays tuition is not taxable. So D15 needs to consider the portion of the scholarship that is anything above the tuition and fees at her school. It turned out that between her taxable portion of the scholarship and her earning, she still did not earn enough to have to pay taxes.
That’s too funny @MotherOfDragons.
Um, say what?
@ct1417 Definitely become educated on taxes and scholarships (and REUs bc they are considered fellowships, not employment.) It is complicated, but doable. They are taxed on the amt above QEE plus their personal deduction at the parents unearned income rate. Our ds has to make quarterly payments for his taxes.
@mtrosemom The taxes are actually at the parent unearned income rate, not the student’s rate.
Aack! REU’s are taxable at the parent rate? What’s QEE?
Qualified educations expenses (tuition, some fees, required books). Yeah, we knew about the scholarships, but the REU caught us off-guard. If they don’t have a lot of scholarship $$ it is probably not a lot of $$, but ds is on full scholarship already.
Maybe (only maybe) not freshman year, but yes after that.
My undergrad job in my undergraduate institution’s graduate school was an absolutely amazing preparation for understanding the differences between grad school and the undergrad world—I totally couldn’t have survived (as a first-generation college graduate, let alone grad student) without knowing some of what went on in the background.
My daughter will have more academic cultural capital than I did, but I figure no matter the job, it’s a good way to push yourself beyond the bubble of your natural social circle and learn skills and such you wouldn’t normally get.
QOD:
Absolutely during the summers.
Probably not for freshman year.
We have a car for my daughter’s use when she is home. It will become hers when she can afford the insurance, registration, AAA membership and gas. So, she may want a job if she decides to live off campus or when she deems a car necessary.
She will need to student teach (unless she changes her mind) as well.