This generation is too dependent on technology and the parents constantly buying everything and not giving the teen enough independence. Teens are too attached to parents and they constantly get babied. In the story “Mandatory Service to Become an Adult” it says that “overprotected by their parents and spending vast amounts of time in front of TV, computers and cellphones(over 50 hours a week by middle adolescence, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation), they are less skilled in the world, less able to build friendships and function in groups..” This shows that because they are so dependent on grown ups they become less skilled, and find themselves having trouble in the real