Is It Just Me?....

Is it just me, or does it actually seem like '18 is the new 14'?

We were out for a lovely dinner with friends the other night, parents all, and bouncing a few things back and forth. We reached consensus that many 18 year-olds these days (not to mention any names) seem decidedly less mature than, say, when we were 18. Why is that? It seems like too many 18-year-olds act and have expectations that more closely approximate the high school freshman of yore...

A few years back I saw a few articles explaining the new (and, in my book, unwelcome)social phenomenon of 'adultelescence.' These are the (disaffecte?) lot that qualify as legal adults chronologically, but not in terms of self-concept, sense or responsibility, independence, or much of anything else. This doesn't seem like such a good thing....

More later, as the Percolator perks on this...