It's true that while at one time not too many years ago part-time and full-time (mostly minimum wage) jobs were easy to get for teenagers. The high unemployment rate has flooded all those jobs that teens would apply for making it extra hard for teenagers to find a job. I know because as a teenager it's very hard for me to find a job, and where there are job opportunities, there are floods of qualified applicants. It was espeically hard for me to find a job when I didn't have any experience under my belt yet. Luckily I've been using many of these alternate forms of making money, and I caught a break and did get to work somewhere.
Teenagers and kids don't have a great idea how to get money and the economy is perceptually terrible right now. A lot of kids and teens get to a certain age where they want to earn their own money but these days jobs are slim pickings. There are however alternative ways to make money so that parents don't have to spend as much on their children and those kids can gain some experience and independance through money making.
Surveys are one option just make sure to google what the best surveys are on the internet, they're are a ton of forums about them as well as yahoo answers about which are the best. I have personally made anywhere from 10 cents to 10 dollars per survey, it takes time but the money does add up and is very real, just make sure find legitamite surveys. I'm going to be adding a blog on the top surveys I use but if you want the site I made the most on go to http://OpinionOutpost.com/, and make sure to sign up through that link. It's free, the only thing is that if you sign up, through my link, which is a referral link, you'll get priority targetting to get surveys from them, just due to some type of primary demographic information they have and really if I scratch your back then you could scratch mine too and that would just be good karma. But pretty much the more surveys you get the more money you could potentially make so really do yourself a favor and just use that link.
They could start a business such as neighorhood dog-watching/care/grooming or do neighborhood lawn mowing both businesses that could have potential to grow as far as the sky's limit. They could also start their own blog, which like this blog, makes money from ad revenue. They just have to make blogposts which take about 30 minutes a blog once you get fast enough, improve writing skills for school, and teach them lessons in business, marketing, advertising, how internet traffic flow works, and many others.
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