© iStock34 percent of 18-34 adults in America still lived with their parents as of 2015, up from 26 percent a decade before.
This week, America learned about something the millennials l ike to call "adulting." The term started as a sort of quasi-joke-whenever a millennial would do something age-appropriate rather than radically immature, this was an act of "adulting." Now, though, millennials apparently require training in being an adult.
According to CBS News, Rachel Flehinger has co-founded an Adulting School, which now includes online courses. Skills taught include basic sewing, conflict resolution, and cooking, among others. CBS suggests that the need for such classes springs from the fact that many millennials "haven't left childhood homes," given that 34 percent of 18-34 adults in America still lived with their parents as of 2015, up from 26 percent a decade before.
There's a good deal of truth to this. If you're living at home, with mom and dad doing their best to spoil you, you're less likely to know how to do laundry, cook, or balance a checkbook. Dependency breeds enervation.
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