Prepare Your Teens For Adulthood

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By Staff

Thursday, November 26, 2009, 12:36

Too much parental nurturing is making adolescents less independent, less skilled at common tasks. Now, a new book provides tips on how to help the teenagers grow up before they enter adulthood.

Studies have shown that more than 60 percent of the youngsters 23 years of age and 30 percent of 25 years of age are still financially supported by their parents.

Today's parents are trying so hard to nurture their teens that they end up not preparing them for adulthood.

The new book Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How to Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old, says the problem appear when parents do too much for their teens. This paralyses their ability to take a flight.

Teens must also be allowed to make mistakes, to fail at things, and to take responsibility for those failures.

Parents should let the young learn from their mistakes and failures because this is what starts to make them feel like adults.

Teenagers learn by experience and parents must allow and encourage those opportunities that will prepare them for the inevitable world of adulthood.