21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Kids aren’t growing up: Shocking new poll says parents are killing kids’ life skills.

By the time kids are old enough for college and way beyond the point they should have graduated, parents — whether wealthy or not — are still doing things children can do for themselves. Such as:

76 percent reminded their adult children of deadlines they need to meet, including for schoolwork
74 percent made appointments for them, including doctor’s appointments
15 percent of parents with children in college had texted or called them to wake them up so they didn’t sleep through a class or test.

One of the most egregious findings of the poll is that 11 percent of parents with adult children will call their child’s employer if he or she had an issue at work.

I guess it shouldn’t be that surprising in that 8 percent of parents said they had contacted a college professor or administrator about their child’s grades or a problem they were having.

And yet at the same time we’re told that 16 year olds should be able to vote.