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photo courtesy of parentdish.com. Making small talk chit chat with an acquaintance recently, I asked her what her teenage daughters were doing this summer. It was one of those pleasantries that just rolled off my tongue without much forethought. I wasn’t prepared for her answer. In rapid-fire succession, she listed about 10 items on her daughters’ to-do list this summer. Half-listening, I caught the names of a few foreign countries, and I definitely heard the term “leadership summit” and “a few weeks” in the same breath. Huh, I thought. Opening a snowball stand would probably instill a healthy dose of leadership in her teenager. But that’s not really a popular choice these days. In fact, getting a summer job period is not something that many teens are doing this summer. Fewer than half of young people ages 16 to 24 were employed in July of 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—a… Read More
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photo courtesy of parentdish.com. Making small talk chit chat with an acquaintance recently, I asked her what her teenage daughters were doing this summer. It was one of those pleasantries that just rolled off my tongue without much forethought. I wasn’t prepared for her answer. In rapid-fire succession, she listed about 10 items on her daughters’ to-do list this summer. Half-listening, I caught the names of a few foreign countries, and I definitely heard the term “leadership summit” and “a few weeks” in the same breath. Huh, I thought. Opening a snowball stand would probably instill a healthy dose of leadership in her teenager. But that’s not really a popular choice these days. In fact, getting a summer job period is not something that many teens are doing this summer. Fewer than half of young people ages 16 to 24 were employed in July of 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—a… Read More
