What would you do if your child worked for you and had a cruddy entitled attitude?

My mother’s solution was to fire me for the summer.
I thought she was joking. Then when I realized it and headed home she told me to clean my room before she got there and it was to be spotless, “seeing that I wasn’t busy at work”. When I didn’t do that she grounded me. Guess what lesson learned. Work your ass off and do your job it doesn’t matter if you’ve got family/friends in high places. Why aren’t more parents like that?

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toddr13 · 46-50, M

I worked for both parents when I was a teen. One of my brothers had an attitude when working at my father's firm, which lasted for about ten minutes, when he realized that his surname on the letterhead meant nothing in terms of the respect he was demanding, but had yet to earn. Teaching respect for others and their roles in the organization and outlining clear responsibilities would be an important concept that I would teach a child.

For me, sometimes my parents were competing for me, such that I had to schedule them in the summer, balancing the needs of my mother's practice with my father's firm, and the roles that I was given in each.

Soramarie · 26-30, F

i has clear responsibilities I just had failed them and had a poor attitude at the time.

toddr13 · 46-50, M

@Soramarie Sometimes that happens. You live and learn.