>>Kids are taking jobs this summer working odd jobs and working for themselves learning how to work for themselves.<<
I assume it is redundant to emphasize that ALL children should be taught to cook and sew as soon as they can lift a bowl or thread a needle.
Those simple skills served me well my entire life.
Started teaching the kinders how to cook at age 3.
How to fix wounds on themselves as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Now my kids are 16 and 14. They can be trusted to run the house for a weekend, grocery shop for the week, wash the clothes and dishes and get their butts in bed by a decent time. Didn’t reward them, just expected it out of them and they perform. Raising them through Catholic schools. Taught them rough camping. They are learing everything I can teach them before they turn 18. Both my parents died before I was 21, so it is very important to me to educate them as much as possible and as fast as possible. Being a Boy Scout and an Marine has a lot to do with that as well, but we are making it fun for them and in the long run, I would have raised two very self reliant people. Hopefully they will pay it back by raising kids like that of their own.