Does Gen Z Need ‘Adulting 101’? » The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Does Gen Z Need ‘Adulting 101’? » The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

As Gen Zers like myself finish our education and enter the workforce, many of us initially face the fear of the next chapter in our lives: adulthood.  The “fear of adulting” was the main topic of conversation amongst my classmates during the last days of college before we graduated last year. We reminisced and laughed about various memories from college, when we had to call our parents or consult online videos to learn how to do laundry, clean m…

While the term “adulting” may be associated with its millennial predecessors, classes on “how to be an adult” have emerged in several U.S. universities with the aim of teaching generation Z key life skills for adulthood. Whether exaggerating the truth in job interviews, lying in job applications or publishing articles doomed to failure, there have been many alarms about the rise of generation Z (people born between the late 1990s and early 2010)…