When my husband returned from his annual fishing trip with his best childhood friend, he asked what I thought about Ted’s 20-year-old son coming to stay with us when he got out of school for summer vacation. Ted had told him that Ben had worked for him the year before, but it hadn’t gone well because felt he didn’t have to do much since he was the boss’s son. Steve said he could put Ben to work in his auto shop and figured he would have to get things done since it would be a real job as opposed to working with his father. “But only if you agree,” he said when he told me his idea. I said it was fine.

My husband leaves for work before five in the morning and gets home between six and seven every night, so I agreed to take Ben to and from work each day because I had the summer off from my... Read More