<p>^^^ adding to above…</p>
<p>When things are calm, explain to your college-bound child that college kids do spend money - pizza, movies, off-campus hangouts (show them a few during campus visits!!!), etc. Ask him how he’ll feel when everyone else has money to go to the show, or go eat at an off-campus favorite place, and he won’t? </p>
<p>Or when everyone else is going to go skiing or snowboarding over the weekend, and he won’t have the money, how is he going to feel having to stay back at the dorm?</p>
<p>Present these ideas calmly …or have someone your child trusts present these thoughts.</p>
<p>It’s not too early to apply for some camp jobs or internships, but it’s too early to apply for retail jobs and most summer camp jobs. Best time for those is spring break (March-April). Those places usually want to hire you to start right away.</p>
<p>My daughter has a summer job the last few years. However, this job pays minimum wage, i.e. nothing glamour. This year, thanks to rooming with 3 different people, she found out they all had cool internship jobs last summer. This motivates her and her other set of friends, who did not have cool internship jobs, to find internship jobs. It pays to have the right set of friends and roommates.</p>