GON
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Thought to start a thread where people can post goofy/ funny parenting mistakes. This thread is not about hard mistakes (which I made many as a parent), but something to smile/ laugh about.
Here is one. My youngest Son, now 28 years old, was unable (not creative) to find a summer job during high school.
I had the solution, I found him a job at a local horse boarding farm cleaning the stalls of horse manure, etc. He was told had to work there, for free- until he found a job that paid. What I didn't know is what goes on a horse boarding farm during the summer.
Teenage girls with horses went to this farm every day and hung out with their horses. He was the only teenage boy around a posse of teenage girls every day at this horse farm. Needless to say- my plan backfired. His motivation to get summer employment went from low to zero...... He loved being at that horse farm....
Here is one. My youngest Son, now 28 years old, was unable (not creative) to find a summer job during high school.
I had the solution, I found him a job at a local horse boarding farm cleaning the stalls of horse manure, etc. He was told had to work there, for free- until he found a job that paid. What I didn't know is what goes on a horse boarding farm during the summer.
Teenage girls with horses went to this farm every day and hung out with their horses. He was the only teenage boy around a posse of teenage girls every day at this horse farm. Needless to say- my plan backfired. His motivation to get summer employment went from low to zero...... He loved being at that horse farm....