Millenials Need Adulting School

[citizen cane]

"Adulting school" is supposed to be adolescence, when your parents show you how to behave like a grown up and take on adult responsibilities. Laws are making it harder, but I think too many parents are falling down on the job here.

I think it has more to do with parents being too lazy/ busy to make the time, and not really anything to do with laws. Parents expect schools to teach their kids everything well enough that they don't have to even teach the basics.

 

[Magic Poriferan]

I think it has more to do with parents being too lazy/ busy to make the time, and not really anything to do with laws. Parents expect schools to teach their kids everything well enough that they don't have to even teach the basics.

I think we should emphasize the busy part, because I don't think that's discussed enough.

Where are the parents? Working way more than should be necessary to get by.

 

[anticlimatic]

Nation Down To Last Hundred Grown-Ups - America's Finest News Source

"Our grown-ups are disappearing at a much faster rate than we previously believed," said Census Bureau chief Robert M. Groves, who believes the decline in responsible adults may now be irreversible. "Unfortunately, we've only recently noticed this terrible trend, perhaps because of this group's unusual capacity to endure hardships with quiet dignity instead of whining loudly to draw attention to themselves."

 

[Coriolis]

I think it has more to do with parents being too lazy/ busy to make the time, and not really anything to do with laws. Parents expect schools to teach their kids everything well enough that they don't have to even teach the basics.

Laws and policies come into play when parents who do want to give their kids more responsibility to help them learn run afoul of legal prohibitions, school rules, or even nosy neighbors.

 

[Poki]

I still cant figure out what group I am in, born in 1980. I appear to be all or none depending on how you wanna dice it, its like pick which persons date range you wanna use to put yourself in the group you wanna be in.

 

[Straylight]

Always thought I was a Gen X'er until recently someone told me to look up the age-range for millenials. Guess being born in 83' makes me a millenial by most accounts (just barely).

My parents taught me absolutely nothing. My mom regretted even having me and gave up custody of me when I was a kid, forcing me to live with my grandmother because she just wanted to do drugs and be a child forever. My dad divorced my mom right after I was born so I never knew him. My grandmother was a full-time teacher and also too old-fashioned and out-of-touch with the world to really know what to tell me. Also she was a dainty Marry Poppins style christian who wouldn't touch any controversial topics with a mile-long pole. She had no idea how to relate to me or anything I was going through. I had to learn from my friends, only, my friends were just as clueless half-the-time being introverted as all hell and coming from fucked up households themselves.

The most important lessons of my life I learned the hard way: from the police, from employers, and from my ex's.

Honestly, I don't know if this is something specific to my generation, but it really sucks. And then compound this with the fact that my generation has to inherit all the economic fallout of the recent 2009 collapse, and things start to look really bleak for the future of America. Sure, I can imagine solutions, but I do not foresee any of them happening. Frankly, I think we're just fucked at this point, so for the past several years I've just been focused on improving my portfolio of job skills by going back to school and getting a STEM degree in case things get really ugly in this country and I need to abandon ship.

 

[-Outsider-]

Frankly, I think we're just fucked at this point, so for the past several years I've just been focused on improving my portfolio of job skills by going back to school and getting a STEM degree in case things get really ugly in this country and I need to abandon ship.

Hi, first, I am very sorry for your shitty home life growing up. But I just came in to give a word of warning. Be very careful in picking your degree. People don't always realize this, but not every STEM degree will be beneficial. Choose wisely.

 

[-Outsider-]

I don't think anybody knows how to be an adult, honestly. We're all kind of stumbling along.

It just sort of sneaks up on you, I suppose, as you begin to do more things.

This is a fair assessment.

So why does everyone always insist on shitting on whatever generation? I really don't appreciate that sort of attitude.

 

[Smilephantomhive]

Hi, first, I am very sorry for your shitty home life growing up. But I just came in to give a word of warning. Be very careful in picking your degree. People don't always realize this, but not every STEM degree will be beneficial. Choose wisely.

Uhh, I think your quote thing messed up since I did not say that.

 

[-Outsider-]

Uhh, I think your quote thing messed up since I did not say that.

Very strange. Thanks for letting me know. Edited.

 

[Yama]

God I would have genuinely absolutely fucking loved it if I had had classes in high school that taught about taxes, insurance, investing/saving/managing money, how to professionally navigate the workplace, etc. Why are those not requirements yet. Instead, they require you to take useless electives. And I mean, I do really like electives, but some of those could have EASILY been replaced by this more useful stuff.

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Actually, I think the best course of action might be to make 'adulting school' a thing kids do their summer before senior year of high school.

 

[Cellmold]

Nation Down To Last Hundred Grown-Ups - America's Finest News Source

The power of ironoia is such that this could be a real article.

 

[Smilephantomhive]

God I would have genuinely absolutely fucking loved it if I had had classes in high school that taught about taxes, insurance, investing/saving/managing money, how to professionally navigate the workplace, etc. Why are those not requirements yet. Instead, they require you to take useless electives. And I mean, I do really like electives, but some of those could have EASILY been replaced by this more useful stuff.

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Actually, I think the best course of action might be to make 'adulting school' a thing kids do their summer before senior year of high school.

In my opinion these classes would only be helpful if teachers could answer students individual questions after a lecture of teaching them how to do it. But yeah having these as electives you could chose to take would be nice.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Anti-semites had it wrong. Perhaps we should take a nod from Jewish culture, stress the importance of education on financial matters from a young age. Some evangelical types are beginning to do this; my grandmother's church holds classes on financial responsibility (of course they still want everyone to tithe 10%, as if God is hard up for the duckets)

 

[Korvinagor]

This is a fair assessment.

So why does everyone always insist on shitting on whatever generation? I really don't appreciate that sort of attitude.

*Puts on fogey hat*

"When I was your age, we had it so much harder than you young people! People died from sneezing and we drank babies' tears for water."

Your guess is as good as mine.

 

[The Cat]

 

[ceecee]

God I would have genuinely absolutely fucking loved it if I had had classes in high school that taught about taxes, insurance, investing/saving/managing money, how to professionally navigate the workplace, etc. Why are those not requirements yet. Instead, they require you to take useless electives. And I mean, I do really like electives, but some of those could have EASILY been replaced by this more useful stuff.

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Actually, I think the best course of action might be to make 'adulting school' a thing kids do their summer before senior year of high school.

This will only happen when it becomes unfashionable to be an idiot. I don't have much hope for that in general but in high school, that's laughable. And the uneducated parents will get right behind their kids to ridicule.

 

[-Outsider-]

God I would have genuinely absolutely fucking loved it if I had had classes in high school that taught about taxes, insurance, investing/saving/managing money, how to professionally navigate the workplace, etc. Why are those not requirements yet. Instead, they require you to take useless electives. And I mean, I do really like electives, but some of those could have EASILY been replaced by this more useful stuff.

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Actually, I think the best course of action might be to make 'adulting school' a thing kids do their summer before senior year of high school.

Well according to many in this thread, our parents are the fuckups for not teaching us this stuff. Bit of a dumb comment to make imo, especially since not everyone's parent has the same level of knowledge...

I don't understand what's so wrong about wanting to standardize this sort of thing into a course, like you've stated. I would have found it very useful as well.

 

[Yuurei]

"Adulting school" is supposed to be adolescence, when your parents show you how to behave like a grown up and take on adult responsibilities. Laws are making it harder, but I think too many parents are falling down on the job here.

My Grandparents refused to teach me teach me any of things and berated me for not knowing how to do them. I told them" So teach me!" and they would say " Oh honey, you aren't capable of learning such things!"

I eventually escaped their borderline Munchousen complex and it just came to me naturally and immediatly. I wonder how it is that duch skills seem ingrained in some and impossible for others.

BTW: My Grandparents raised me. I learned recently that they wanted to legally adopt me, because could not be bothered to put in the extra effort.


As for my own thoughts; I do agree, however, " Millenial" is a lifestyle, not an age group. I know pleanty of people my age ( and older) who could not adult if their lifes depended on it-fortunatly for them it never will because the world is designed to cater to them.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]