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This is what adulting is all about…

Crossroads

Teen don’t realise that the money they’re blowing now could be really important in the future.

Photo credit: Igah | Nation Media Group

By  Chris Hart

Columnist

What you need to know:

  • Teens have no idea how important it is to learn to deal well with conflict, disappointments, hardships and sorrows.
  • They don’t realise how many people are competing to impress people they don’t know with money they don’t have.

Children imagine that being an adult will be wonderful. As teens, they smugly think they know everything, and that their parents got it all wrong.

Adults know different of course, but no teenager ever gets it. What else don’t they know about adulting?

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