College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults
Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults.
The Daily Beast reports.
College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults
Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For America’s increasingly fragile college students—thousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeks—the answer is a panic-stricken no.
You may recall last year’s horror stories about easily traumatized students whose deteriorating mental health conditions were overburdening their universities’ counselors. This semester, to relieve some of the expected stress—on both the students and the campus’s mental health services—schools are getting creative. East Carolina University, for instance, will provide optional stress-management classes: or, as one news site described it, remedial education in how to be an adult.
College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults (The Daily Beast)
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I am sure the frustration of having to get in a car to drive for a few minutes to the beach is pretty rough. And having to jump through all those hoops to get to the Outer Banks is atrocious.
When my kids were in preschool, a lot of the mommies were shocked when I told them I was raising my kids to leave me at 18. They seemed to be unclear on the concept that being a parent is more than kissing boo-boos. Maybe it’s the parents who need lessons on what the job really should be about.