Don’t Let Your Teen Leave Home Without These Life Skills

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Jul 07, 2022

ADULTING Don't Let Your Teen Leave Home Without These Life Skills   It's easy to get bogged down in day-to-day stuff when your kids are young. But then, all of a sudden, they're adults responsible for paying their own electric bill and a million other things. Will they be ready?  Jessica G. Hartshorn realized that, when her kids were little, "I focused more on reaching each evening rather than preparing my two kids for adulthood, which felt far away," she writes. "Every day was hitting marks and trying to stay on top of whatever was going on. I realize now that I forgot to tell them so much adult stuff." Today she's laying out some of those essential skills, so the rest of us can start now. Check it out and reduce the likelihood of getting panicked calls from your kid when they're 22 and living four states away. — Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor   Read More

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