I've been buying my luxuries since I was 12, paying rent at home since I was 15 (cause I quit school) and on my own since I was 17. First house purchased at 19.
31 years in the steel mill now, with numerous layoffs and and a few strikes inbetween. Never asked anyone for a dime!
I've done pool instalations, snow remoaval, lawn cutting and leaf raking, interior painting and roofing to get me through the lean times.
My daughters now at 15 and 17 have both been working for a over a year and my son who'll be 15 this year will be working soon. Far to many kids have a sense of entitlement to things not earned. I refuse to allow my kids that lazy pleasure!
On top of this they have maintained scholarship grades.....thank the good Lord.
Steer the course and teach him that the guilty pleasures are earned, not handed to him.