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Category: emerging adulthood
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For those of us whose college grad kids have moved back home, there’s little comfort in knowing we and they are part of a post-recession trend.
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It isn’t just economic stress that’s driving our millennials back home to live with us. It may also be a generational change that has them feeling more comfortable with us culturally.
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A political columnist share his trauma when he drove his eldest son to college and took his leave of him–a ritual similar to the first day of kindergarten but more riveting.
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Our generation may be "overinvested in our children." That's the reason financial planner (and consumer advocate), Eleanor Blayney, gives as why some of us have let ourselves slip into debt–despite carefully saving for retirement. There is, of course, the job market problem–an issue for those coming out of college in the past few years. Now…
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Our college grads may have the technical skills for today’s jobs but not the collaboration and problem solving talents employers are looking for.
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A friend and i have this conversation almost every time we meet for coffee. We are both still working–me part time, she full time. We have other projects we'd like to attack but work pressures get in the way. We both admit that part of why we continue to toil away is the money. Not…
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I had lunch with a friend who was worried sick about her college-senior son. Her complaint: He is directionless and unable to take action to get a job. Not only hasn't he signed up with his college's job-search office or applied to opportunities his mother has suggested or unearthed. He hasn't even written a resume–no…
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One of my children–he shall go nameless–was a mess as an adolescent: a mess in the sense that his clothes (clean and dirty) littered the floor; his school papers (due and past due) lay in disarray on his desk [this was the pre-computer era] and his organizational skills were low to none. None of that…
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My friend Cathy's middle son graduates from a local college in May but he has a lease on an apartment that runs through August 1–at a cost of $1,000 a month for his share of the rent. Cathy has made it clear that he should find a sublet for his room and move back home…
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