While we’re on the subject of ‘Work’ aka ‘Creating’ let me briefly remind #17 of my ’20 Tips for Better Management of Your Teen’: ‘Explain why ‘work’ is to be an expression of their Joy and NECESSARY for their happiness. Plant the seed of creating as a means of happiness in and of itself rather than doing it just for the money.

– It will strike a chord for them because they will feel the truth of it intuitively from their own limited experience.

– Creating their own enterprise (which is how this country was built and the direction to which it is returning) will be a natural alternative and – NECESSARY for their happiness because creating is inherit in the character of a being human. We are creating at all time anyway, may as well be something that gives them(us) Joy AND money.

Like the ‘sex talk’, the ‘creating talk’ needs to be ongoing and woven into the fabric of your conversations with them periodically. How good are you at these conversations? How good are you at seeing the Joy in your current working, creating situation?