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Category: emerging adulthood
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A few weeks ago I posted a blog on how to talk to an 8-year-old. It got a lot of response, and I learned a whole litany of questions to use to get a conversation going, questions that were not conversation stoppers. (Case in point: "How's school?") It's a little more complicated with an 18-year-old,…
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A father earns a bonus from sharing his financial details with his daughter.
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As a generation, we are more generous with our 20-somethings than our parents were with us. In so doing, we’re in lock-step with an emerging trend that recognizes the early 20s as “emerging adulthood,” a stage in development that comes right after adolescence.