Adolescence is a time of change and continuity and in many cases the change can be discontinuous. As teens rely less on their parents and more on themselves they become faced with many decisions that they think they can handle on their own. However, choosing a career is a serious decision they have to make and are unaware of the affects it may have on their lives and the lives of their families.

This website focuses on informing parents on different aspects of teenage employment. After all, working as an adolescent is a discontinuous transition from young adulthood into adulthood. Young adults often work part time, whereas adults work more full time professional jobs. Young adults work in more service-orientated jobs (food and clothing industries) and adults hold business-orientated jobs. Furthermore, adults gain more benefits from working than teenagers do. This discontinuous transition may cause confusion for teens and their parents. We intend for this website to help parents gain insight into the working world of teens.

About Us

Katherine Piper, Alison DeCecco, Alicia Haines, and Rachel Mummey are all students in Professor Darling's Human Development and Family Studies course 433 at The Pennsylvania State University. Throughout the course of the semester, we learned about specific transitions that adolescents have had to make before entering adulthood. For this website project, we chose to focus on the transition of entering the working world. We believe that not enough attention is given to this relatively new activity that many teens take part in today. After all, over the past 50 years there has been a service industry mainly composed of teens and created for teens. We wanted to inform parents and help them with any questions they might have about their teens and working.