Life Adulting 101

**luv** · 06-06-2019, 07:26 AM

https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Adu...I5Hs-qSgsW-4vk

‘Adulting 101’ class teaches students how to survive in the real world after high school graduation

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - It seems like children everywhere want to grow up and be an adult, but when they actually do grow up and realize that they’re an adult, they want to go back to being a child again.

If you look up the word “adulting” in the dictionary, you will see it explained as “the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks.”

In an effort to prepare for the real world after graduation, seniors at Fern Creek High School took a crash course in adulting, with a class called “How To Adult 101.”

"The term ‘adulting’ has been a big thing lately,” College Access Resources teacher Sara Wilson-Abell said. “And I just kind of took that and ran with it.”

Seniors take three days and learn basic household tasks, life-skills, how insurance works, and how to save money for retirement, among other things.

“We had bankers come in and talk to our students about basic loans,” Wilson-Abell said. “We had State Farm here talking about insurance. We had representatives here talking about retirement.”

Ask many around WAVE Country what they think one of the main right of passages into adulthood is, and they’d most likely answer getting a permit, learning to drive a car, and getting a license. And with that, comes the responsibility of maintaining a vehicle.

Students headed outside where they learned how to check the oil in a vehicle and how to change a tire on the side of the road.

They also received instruction on basic home maintenance and doing laundry.

“I learned a lot about my laundry,” senior Lilly Farmer said. “I knew, like, some aspects of it but I never sorted my clothes or anything like that. Now I know it’s very important to do.”

Just last year, Bullitt Central High School had the same idea, preparing students in Bullitt County for the world beyond that of high school.

Seniors in the class of 2019 received one-on-ones with people from the community, teaching things like dorm-room cooking, changing a tire, how to manage a credit-cardand financing.

Police also came in and helped students learn how to interact with a traffic stop. Another professional talked about homesickness and the signs that it’s really something else and when to get help.

stevieray · 06-06-2019, 07:38 AM

we're doomed.

Hammock Parties · 06-06-2019, 07:40 AM

Three days?

It should be a mandatory social studies class for every HS senior in America.

**luv** · 06-06-2019, 07:42 AM

My first thought while reading this was, "Did 'adulting' actually become a verb?"

My second thought was, "People need a class on how to do laundry? What is this world coming to?"

My third thought was, "I wonder if there's a section on the importance of showing up to work and appointments on time?"

While I laughed at first, the more I think about it, the more I think it's a good idea. With all of the changes in insurance that have happened since "back in my day," the introduction of online banking making checkbook reconciliation a lost art, and the importance of starting early on saving for retirement, it's gotten difficult for parents to keep up with these things in order to teach to their children (even if sorting laundry hasn't changed).

One of the attorneys I work for was invited to speak in a high school business class. He actually had one student think that, if you buy a car and then find out you overpaid, then the car lot owes you the difference. He was floored when he discovered that contracts are binding, and that, when you agreed to pay that much for the car and signed the contract, you were on the hook for paying the entire purchase price.

On the one hand, I do believe it's the parents' responsibility to raise a human being so that it will be a productive member of society. On the other hand, technology and procedures have changed so much in the past 25 years, that parents might actually not be the best equipped people for teaching some of these types of things to their children.

**Saulbadguy** · 06-06-2019, 07:42 AM

Sounds like a positive thing.

**Saulbadguy** · 06-06-2019, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by luv

On the other hand, technology and procedures have changed so much in the past 25 years, that parents might actually not be the best equipped people for teaching these types of things to their children.

No shit. I've forgotten how to balance a checkbook - it's a worthless skill. A large percentage of parents don't have enough money for retirement, why/how are they equipped to teach their children how to do that?

Laundry? Change a tire? WGAF - just watch someone do it on youtube.

WhiteWhale · 06-06-2019, 07:49 AM

This responsibility is too much to put on people under 40!

WhiteWhale · 06-06-2019, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

No shit. I've forgotten how to balance a checkbook - it's a worthless skill. A large percentage of parents don't have enough money for retirement, why/how are they equipped to teach their children how to do that?

Laundry? Change a tire? WGAF - just watch someone do it on youtube.

lol.

Balancing a checkbook isn't a skill.

It's basic subtraction and addition. 2nd grade level math at the most.

It IS rather pointless in the era of bank apps. I don't do it. I can check my balance any time I want.

**TribalElder** · 06-06-2019, 07:52 AM

Any 200 level adulting classes available?

Asking for a friend

Why Not? · 06-06-2019, 07:55 AM

I’m mean, somebody had to do something

Hammock Parties · 06-06-2019, 07:55 AM

There badly needs to be a part of the curriculum focused on budgeting, too.

My former company is in union negotiations with a bunch of twenty somethings who think they deserve mandatory 5% raises every year, and starting salary bumps that will be retroactively applied.

They rejected the company's proposal of merit-based raises.

Their reasoning: "life is hard! and sometimes expensive!!!"

They staged a walkout last week.

And at the same time, the company isn't even public, isn't profitable yet, and has had a staggering decline in performance over the last two years. Which, coincidentally, has come at the exact same time the union was formed. They've been negotiating this entire time, and already received tons of concessions.

The company is not the government or mommy and daddy. You get paid equal to what you are worth. If you think you are worth more, find a company willing to pay you more. Don't try to squeeze blood from a stone. Otherwise your cute little walkout may eventually become permanent.

Entitlement generation doesn't understand capitalism and wants corporate socialism. That's not a thing.

Third Eye · 06-06-2019, 08:00 AM

I couldn’t care less about the class, but what drives me crazy is English mistakes in articles written by “journalists”. I don’t get bothered by regular joe’s writing mistakes. Hell, I wouldn’t be able to handle CP if I did. I have a higher expectation from news sources though. A “right” of passage? C’mon...

Dayze · 06-06-2019, 08:07 AM

I wonder if "The World Isn't Fair & You're Not Special" is part of the syllabus.

Flying High D · 06-06-2019, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TribalElder

Any 200 level adulting classes available?

Asking for a friend

Pre level adulting classes available?

Asking for Chicken Plucker.

**loochy** · 06-06-2019, 08:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Three days?

It should be a mandatory social studies class for every HS senior in America.

No.

PARENTS are supposed to do this.

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