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“Long time ago kids matured faster.

Now days? I wonder if some of them ever mature?

Some of them it takes till they are out of college at around 21 or 22 maybe even 25 because it’s taking longer to finish college and hit the “real world”.”

In my day even the town kids were mature by the time they got out of HS.
The farm kids had matured before then.
We had to.
On the farm we had chores before we were old enough for school.
By the time we were 13 us guys were doing a mans job on the farm.
Even the town kids were expected to mow the lawn, clean the house or other adult type work.
No one had a free ride.

Now?
I know people in their late 20’s still living at home.

I’m pretty proud of my kids.
My daughter is 37.
She has worked since she was 16.
She is now a pharmacy tech going to night school to get her pharmacists diploma.

My twin boys both quit HS their senior year, took and passed their GED within a month and entered the workforce.
One works in construction and suffers the ups and downs of that profession.

The other works in a plant that makes conveyors and packing/stacking equipment. He is being cross trained on all the jobs/equipment in hopes he will be the plants floor supervisor in the near future.

Too many of their classmates are married and living off mom and dad, in prison or dead from drug and alcohol use.

Both my wives and I worked hard to instill a good work ethic and sense of responsibility in the kids.
Compared to their peers we didn’t do too bad.