money

When it comes to growing up, teens and parents look at it differently. A part of growing up means paying bills. We all know parents have to deal with this stress but now a days, some teens are required by their paretns to help with the living cost and bills. This idea differs between which parent we're talking about. Some parents require their children to go out and get a job when they become old enough to. After they get that job, the teen is required to help with phone bill or whichever bill the parent makes them help with. On the other hand, we have the parents who don't want their teen going out and getting a job young or helping with bills. They may need that one extra pay check but they might feel like bad parents if they ask their child to help. I understand where they are coming from with that point.
Personally, my parents make me help. When I turned old enough to get a job and could drive by myself, I went out and got a job. Not becasue I had to but because I wanted to. With that job came responsiblity and that was to help pay the phone bill and car payment. Yeah, it's kind of hard living off little money because most of my check goes towards bills. But in reality, that is gonna be my life coming up and I have my parents to thank for preparing me for that.