The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: bigheadfred on February 25, 2017, 04:06:33 pm
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Transitioning to adulthood isn't new, but there is a more modern way to describe it: adulting.
And now a new school in Maine, called the Adulting School, is dedicated to teaching skills like these to fledgling adults so they can become successful grown-ups.
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/510554718/adulting-school-teaches-young-adults-grown-up-skills
Where have all the cowboys gone?
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You can't make me!
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My grandfather spent his "coming of age" as a quartermaster on a Navy destroyer in the Pacific theater in WW2. He was at Leyte Gulf, Guadalcanal, and was in over 100 air raids in 3 days.
That was his adulting school.
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Where were their parents? They really need someone to teach them how to fold a fitted sheet or cook a meal? Most people learn that at home growing up. They blame the lack of home ec classes? Were they raised by wolves?
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Where were their parents? They really need someone to teach them how to fold a fitted sheet or cook a meal? Most people learn that at home growing up. They blame the lack of home ec classes? Were they raised by wolves?
Isn't there an old saying something like "Spare the rod and you never have curtains hanging in your house"?
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How about fewer and fewer grow up in two parent homes. And the mother is earning a living.
So the children are raised by their peers, who like them lack adult role models. Teachers try but they too are not able to be "adult like" enough, for fear of breaking their liberal "educator" agendas.
They have toys, video games, skateboards, music etc. And of course hours and hours of mindless television which is 1/3 commercials.
The rod has long been spared, and the child is spoiled.
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How about fewer and fewer grow up in two parent homes. And the mother is earning a living.
So the children are raised by their peers, who like them lack adult role models. Teachers try but they too are not able to be "adult like" enough, for fear of breaking their liberal "educator" agendas.
They have toys, video games, skateboards, music etc. And of course hours and hours of mindless television which is 1/3 commercials.
The rod has long been spared, and the child is spoiled.
I think in the case of a single parent it isn't so much in the lack of training, but the lack of enforcement.