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Coming-of-Age
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Friday, July 26, 2024    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Teach your children well, then let them free to go make their own mistakes and learn financial and moral responsibility early on. Don't helicopter parent them.


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Coming-of-Age



In tribal times, coming-of-age,

meant passing into a new stage,

from childhood dependence,

to adulthood and independence.


In technological times,

things have changed.

The path to adulthood,

as been rearranged.


Youth are dependent,

much later in life.

Much freer from challenge,

responsibility and strife.


With disposable income,

they freely dispose of.

Waste many precious years,

on frivolity, fun things they love.


Buying things they don't need,

chasing every Internet flash,

keeping up with their peers,

borrowing for more cash.


With their education over,

reality finally rudely arrives,

their debt is enormous,

taking the rest of their lives.


For the few that are frugal,

take responsibility early on.

Coming-of-age is a blessing,

as they take over, parents gone.


Copyright 2023 © Ronald W. Hull


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 Reviews of "Coming-of-Age"
Reviewed by Diana Legun
Reviewed on August 2, 2024
There shows personal experience in this, Ron. “The path to adulthood…been rearranged.”. That says it well, about things being changed. I wish I knew better the constraints the youth find crippling…maybe it is technology itself. What an overwhelming world to be a youth in, which you captured precisley with “their debt is enormous,/taking the rest of their lives.”. Very keen social comment. ~~ djl

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on July 27, 2024
Very sound advice for the older generation in dealing with the younger generation coming into their own. There is much we can teach them, and much that they have to learn on their own. Even if they have been taught something and theoretically know, they still have to learn by experience in order to internalize the knowledge. A very important poem for readers to read its message to absorb.

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on July 26, 2024
Very true. Something I learned later in life, unfortunately.

Rebecca


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