| "articletext"> | | | | their sleeves for physical labor or held a job. And the |
| They�ve been raised in an age of excess | | | | number of teens working summer jobs this year is the |
| consumption, where plastic surgery and flashy cars | | | | lowest since the government started collecting data |
| are doled out as high school graduation gifts. Some | | | | back in 1948�only 39.6% of American teens |
| experts say catering to kids� self-esteem | | | | aged 16 to 19 worked summer jobs this year |
| instead of teaching them about responsibility has left | | | | according to the Department of Labor. |
| them poorly equipped to deal with adulthood. Armed | | | | While the same research also showed more students |
| with cell phones, laptops and their parents� | | | | enrolled in school over the summer, many parents are |
| cash, they have a sense of entitlement like no | | | | frustrated. They lament their children�s |
| generation before them. Many have never rolled up | | | | expectation of having everything handed to them. |