Still off topic: I worked for several decades at a university and had the impression that "our" students enjoyed and benefited from earning their own money. Some of them participated in international competitions that were then broadcast on television; okay, there were night shifts beforehand, but from my subjective point of view, the advantages of student employment outweighed the disadvantages. I also thought it was good socially that the students were embedded in a work team and that, besides their parents, there were a few other older (adult?) people in their environment who checked how the students were doing and in what ways, also socially, they might need support from time to time. Simple things like a meeting at 10:00 a.m., and if the student wasn’t there, someone would just call and ask. Really, without pressure etc., just asking if everything was okay. At that age, one is sometimes unhappy, "not in the mood," and the like, so in my opinion, it’s simply great if there are a few more older people besides the parents who have gone through those developments themselves, accompany them, and help emotionally/mentally/practically, but who are not the parents. Employment among our students also went hand in hand with the joy of the product they had created themselves and sometimes even the pizza they had paid for themselves. I can’t express it better, and since I don’t come from a wealthy family, I honestly don’t know whether it’s nicer and more helpful to simply receive money from the parents every month. Whether it really speeds up studies, I can’t say, but I think something is missing.
And about my bonus child I can say: years of financed studies, but no degree yet after 10 years.