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Baby Boomers to blame for kids' 'failure to launch'?

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    More young adults moving back home

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It's happening more and more adult children moving back home with their parents.

But is it really as funny -- Hollywood makes it -- to big.

-- five years old he still lives.

That is not normal I moved upstairs -- -- touring it's and they stick of dynamite again my parents.

That's -- Is the author of the new book slouching toward adulthood and she joins us now song welcome -- -- -- and still more adult children moving back home with the parents is this just about the economy or something else going on them.

Well the economy plays a role.

But there's no doubt that what we're seeing in the generation coming up is a very good result of a very different kind of parenting.

And it turns into many people.

Not getting jobs when they.

Complete their college education and not having -- and -- and sometimes they.

Wind up at home right after college and sometimes they're coming back later meaning we're making them more dependent.

Our kids.

-- yes I think it's fair to say that we are that we're so in interested in our kids developing the skills that will.

Get -- into college all the great items on the college applications that -- not teach them how to divide the lights from the parks.

Interesting that you say that because there is another statistic not just by the numbers up of a delicate -- on 25% higher than a few years -- But this interesting -- statistic for the summer seven out of ten teenagers.

Do not have summer jobs.

Why.

Well probably because.

People in college -- people who are out of college -- taking the kinds of jobs that may be.

A lifeguard job for example that a teenager would have had in the past there's a trickle down effect.

Because the unpaid internship is the new entry level job.

Is -- also is there something I've heard this before but tell me what your research in the book found.

Is there something -- today's teenagers were they don't want to do dishes at -- like I did for.

A summer I mean are there some jobs now that they believe -- been niece -- them.

Yes I think it's fair to say but I don't think that teenagers are to blame I think it's the parents who.

-- have really to a certain extent paddled kids and they want their children to really have.

Perfect lives and they don't see these kinds of jobs is part of it.

Speaking of coddling kids there's a -- articles out this week -- USA today being one of them about how parents are now calling their -- -- flyers.

And at getting sick days.

Helping and beef up their -- is doing all of the things that young adults are supposed to be doing with their own bosses.

It's true and it's pretty insane.

I caught concierge parenting that they're there.

It cuts took place of love.

I don't think any parent feels that trying to control their kids' lives is is something that they're doing that's nastier mean but.

I think parents -- it failed to realize that there's certain things in life like looking for a job in dealing with rejection and learning to get allowing people to work place that you could only learn yourself.

Bring an end -- crippling them on some level cell -- floated the author slouching toward adulthood it's a great read thanks so much for coming in -- -- -- confidence.

I remember the --

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