17-year-old clashes with mother for not allowing her to "no-call no-show" to her volunteer job among other irresponsible behavior: 'We let her throw a house party recently where it was supposed to be 25 people and at least 100 kids came'

The point of doing volunteer hours for college applications is that college admittance can ensure that you're someone with the barest understanding of responsibility. If you're "no-call no-showing" to the organization where you're putting in your volunteer hours—well, it's pretty clear you're not learning the lessons you're supposed to be.

Whether it's a paid role or volunteer work, when you sign up to do something, it's a commitment that has been made. Other people are relying on you to uphold that commitment and stick to your word. And your word, once broken, is something that's incredibly difficult to earn back.

This is where parents are supposed to step in and steer their kids right. While leniency is important, and being overly strict can lead to other issues, letting your kids have free reign and "no rules" just leads to fearful adults with antisocial tendencies who go on to drive up the shoulder in traffic and cut in line and do other infuriatingly entitled things that the rest of us have to put up with thanks to their miserable existence. That may sound extreme, but it's clear that these parents are letting themselves be pushed around by their teen daughter, and it's time to set things straight.  

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