Life is funny.
No one gets a handbook upon turning 18, complete with all the rules they’ll need to memorize and competencies they’ll need to acquire.
Somehow you’re just supposed to know that you should have more money coming in than going out, and you shouldn’t wear a fuzzy orange sweater to a job interview.
Business Insider put together a handbook of sorts, which lists many skills you’ll need to survive as an adult in the modern world.
Even during the best of times, parents wonder whether their teens are developing all the skills they need to be successful in life. A problem in this “appraisal” process is that parents see their teens in some of their most regressed and infantile states—when they are at home with their families! Furthermore, new neuroscience research indicates that the human brain does not reach maturity until a person reaches their early twenties. So, how do parents of teens know what to look for in the development of life skills? Click the pic to read Laura Kastner, Ph.D. tell us her top 10. 