To the editor:

Bad parenting is on the rise. Parents excessively spoil their children, allowing them to slack off, and enabling them to become the future snobs of America. By showering teens with unessential items, they learn nothing about real life. It’s a domino effect, parents spoiling kids, who in turn spoil their kids. When you are handed everything, you won’t know how to survive when you are taken out of your comfort zone, and placed in the real world.

Lee County school parking lots consist of 400-plus parking spots, all of which are full of student vehicles. Who pays for these fancy sport cars and SUVs? Parents. I am a 16-year-old high school student, and I see spoiled teens every day driving to school in cars their parents bought them, and burning gas their parents pay for. Parents are to blame for these teens that have no concept of money, and are deprived of responsibility Teens need a reality check on what it’s like to have a job, and pay for things on their own. Although the current state of the economy makes job availability for teenagers scarce, half of these spoiled teens have never filled out a job application, and the other half believe they are too good for minimum wage jobs. If parents pushed their children to get jobs, and take responsibility, teens would not get the negative reputation of being lazy, snobby, and for the most part, useless.

Allison Heath

Cape Coral