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Ellis, meanwhile, has a nearly 14-year-old son who is in what she calls a “teenage, hormonal place” — not that dissimilar to Emily, who has three slacker teenagers obsessed with video games.

These are the people cranking up productivity, impressing managers and making the rest of us look like slackers.

He decries the lack of unifying concepts like “the West” and sees too many Americans as slackers with no sense of national pride or patriotism.

Barnoff says Nathaniel was a bit of a slacker when he was in junior high and taking lessons at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.

My backstory was that they lived in New York — he was trying to get in a band, it didn’t really happen for him, he was kind of a slacker.