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.

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A lifeguard watches over a swimming pool full of children.
Susie Johnson (not pictured) — who believes helicopter parenting impairs kids' independence — hires teenage lifeguards to supervise swimmers at a country club.

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wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.

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An illustration of a pool with floaties in the shape of a frowning face

A pool could have been evidence that my life hadn't amounted to nothing. But after we Zelle-ed the deposit to our contractor, things started to go very wrong.

All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.

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