Well, Somebody Is Addressing The Problem

It might as well Be Nebraska’s Senator Ben Sasse. He has a lot of it right, too. Becoming an adult means putting away childish things and taking responsibility for your life and your future. It’s not easy or everyone would do it. It’s often hard but the rewards are worth it. It has to be learned which means it must be taught – usually by parents. Sometimes when parents are unable the teaching falls on grandparents.

There are life lessons that people learn as they make mistakes, recover, and learn from them. It takes a lifetime to do it that way but if you have learned them you can pass many of the tenets along to young people.

“How to Raise an American Adult”

Many young Americans today are locked in perpetual adolescence. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse on how he and his wife are encouraging their own children to become fully formed, independent grown-ups

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Adulting” is an ironic way to describe engaging in adult behaviors, like paying taxes or doing chores—the sort of mundane tasks that responsibility demands. To a growing number of Americans, acting like a grown-up seems like a kind of role-playing, a mode of behavior requiring humorous detachment.

Let me be clear: This isn’t an old man’s harrumph about “kids these days.” I still remember Doc Anderson standing in the street in 1988, yelling at me to slow down as I drove through his neighborhood in our small Nebraska town. I was 16 and couldn’t stand that guy. Years later, when I had children of my own, I returned to thank him. Maturation.”

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