A pool director at a country club hires teens as lifeguards. She sees parents applying for their kids to make life easier, but it has the opposite effect.

• Susie Johnson is the pool director at a country club who hires teens as lifeguards.
• The mom of five said she has received job applications written by their moms and dads, not them.
• Her most reliable, efficient staff don't have helicopter parents who try to make their lives easier.

When Susie Johnson took her current job as the pool director of a country club, she was responsible for hiring a new team of summer lifeguards.