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This picture shows how Jeannette and her siblings were treated in school and around town, mainly during their stay at Welch. Jeannette was ridiculed for just being different in Welch. Kids made fun of her for wearing the same clothes every day, the way she looked, and even how she answered questions at school. This quote from Jeannette: “I had learned to fend for myself, and that was a skill no one could take away" shows how even though she was made fun of for almost everything else that she did, no one could take away her fighting and enduring spirit.

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This picture represents how Jeannette and her family would all have dinner at the dinner table on rare occasions. The quote, "We had a wild, unpredictable life, but we found moments of order in the madness, like when we sat together at the dinner table," shows that even through all of the madness and chaos of the Walls' life, the family could still find some peace in activities like gathering at the dinner table for a meal or even when they all found their own book to read. Even Rex and Rose Marry, the causes of this chaos, found some peace and order when at the dinner table or when silently reading together.

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The image of a teenager working a job mirrors Jeannette’s ability to become self-sufficient early in life, like when she got a job at the jewelry store to provide for herself and her siblings. With parents who often neglected or failed to provide, Jeannette had to learn how to take care of herself. The quote "There were times when I had to take care of myself—no one else was going to do it for me." reinforces this by expressing that, in her chaotic childhood, no one was there to take care of her, so she had to develop survival skills and independence.

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With the fall semester under way, parents and students are choosing extracurricular activities. Hockey? Chess club? Band? Recent research shows that another option - adolescent work experience - can pay big dividends later in life.

Many schools and parents push children to engage in excessive extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, adolescent work has been increasingly categorized as non-desirable and only for those facing the demands of poverty. Yet more than 50 per cent of high school seniors work, suggesting teen work is more than a product of income inequality.

In fact, recent research shows work experience has many positive impacts for all. Students can learn many life skills through working, and if teenage job opportunities are overlooked, they can miss out on many benefits. The benefits are both short-term and long-term.

Benefits of teen work

In research we report in Research in the Sociology of Work, we analyzed the Youth in Transition Survey data collected jointly by Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. The data represents 246,661 Canadian youth in 2009 tracked from the ages of 15 to 25. This long time frame allowed us to look at the longer term impacts of working as a teen.

Working year-round at the age of 15 led to a higher chance of being employed at 17 to 21. But what of the quality of the work? Those who worked year-round at 15 had higher incomes at ages 17 to 25, and at ages 21 to 23 had higher quality job matches.

Some of these benefits were even stronger when working for a family business rather than a stranger. In fact, working in a family business led to further enhanced career networking and even better matched jobs later in life at the age of 25.

This is an important finding, considering roughly 45 per cent of Canadian youth report having worked in their family's business at some point. While this number may appear high, when you take into account that many children work in small family businesses or farms, it highlights the impact such work has on a wide swath of society.

Benefits of working for the family business

In our recent Family Business Review article, we analyzed Statistics Canada data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth representing over 570,000 Canadian youth who were 16 to 17 years old in 2002-2003. We wanted to disentangle a puzzle that has plagued adolescent development literature and shown mixed impacts of working as a teenager.

Many previous studies assumed that working as a teen interferes with family time. These studies focus on the time trade-off work represents, and frame working as a negative influence on family relationships. But a large percentage of working teens work for a family business where they can spend time with family members while working. Our study separates out those who work for a family business from others.

Our findings show that those teens who worked year-round for their family business between the ages of 14 to 15 had a better relationship with their parents, which continued to get even better by the time they were 16 to 17.

The effects go beyond just their relationship with their parents. Previous studies report depression is a leading cause of illness and disability for teens.

Many extracurriculars do not give children enough opportunity to fail and build resilience. Many students are not learning the skills they need to succeed.

Self-esteem has previously been shown to be linked to resilience. In our study, those same teens who worked year-round for their family business between the ages of 14 to 15 had fewer incidents of depression and higher self-esteem at 16 to 17. These psychological benefits can be long lasting.

Too much of a good thing

But we caution that teens can also work too much. In the Research in the Sociology of Work piece we find that working too many hours starts to reduce the positive effects.

The potential benefits of adding work back into the extracurricular mix are immense, but things should be taken in moderation. Parents and teens should certainly consider work as a positive extracurricular experience, but not overdo it to the point of it hindering development.

And, of course, we do not condone exploitative work in any amount.

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With the fall semester under way, parents and students are choosing extracurricular activities. Hockey? Chess club? Band? Recent research shows that another option - adolescent work experience - can pay big dividends later in life. Many schools and parents push children to engage in excessive extracurricular activities.

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This picture represents disappointment, like when Rex broke oz and stole Jeannette and Lori's "escape fund" for New York and then straight up lied to them when they asked him about it. The quote “If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim" shows how even though Rex and Rose Marry disappointed Jeannette many times she couldn't dwell on it. If she dwelled on the disappointment then she wouldn't be able to keep moving forward and keep surviving every day.

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This image represents how Rex Walls kept promising that he was going to build a "Glass Castle" for his family that was completely self-sufficient and could run off solar power. He said that everyone would have their own run with a lot of space, and the house would have running water. The quote, “We waited for the glass castle, but it never materialized. We were left with only the ruins of our dreams," shows how Rex made far-reaching promises to his family over and over again. His family believed most of his promises and they were let down by almost of them

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The picture represents the cottage that Jeannette and her husband built for Rose Marry after they bought their farm. The quote “I learned that forgiveness was the key to healing, not just for them, but for myself.” shows that even Rose Mary put her and all of her siblings through the trauma that they view as a childhood, she still forgives her and loves, even though Rose Mary told her many times that she is not sorry the way that she raised them.