The New Youth

I'm a little worried about the future.  Just whose kids are going to become the next restaurant dishwashers ?  These are important people who clean the restrooms, mop the floors behind the bar, haul heavy loads of trash, scrub pots and pans, wash dishes, glassware and sort endless loads of silverware, break down boxes, scrub walk-in coolers and probably peel most of the potatoes in town and all for  $8.00 an hour.  My kid is not going to do it and neither are her friends.  Who is?  I guess the same immigrants who have been coming to this country for the last couple hundred of years or so. 

I am guilty of raising a daughter who does not know how to do laundry, complains when she's asked to unload the dishwasher (as if anyone likes to do it) and has a very dirty bathroom because I think it's time she cleaned her own.  She's perpetually bored even with her cell phone , I Pod Touch, Laptop computer, WII game system.  She wants to be entertained and in constant contact with friends, friends, friends.  She is in tears if she doesn't have someone to hang with.  And she can't cook.  

I plan on retooling my daughter this summer.  She does not know yet.

Comments

[Kristin Leydig Bryant]

Good luck with the teenproject!