Parents realistically have about 18 summers to teach children essential life skills before they leave home. Practical lessons include safety guidance, social boundaries, workplace awareness, and decision-making rules. Specific tips include avoiding freezing carbonated drinks, never putting water on a grease fire, preferring sharp knives over dull ones, and recognizing that cheating is a deliberate choice. Guidance covers interactions with authorities and medical personnel, asserting 'No' as a complete sentence, and using the two-of-three rule for new substances: familiar people, familiar place, familiar substance. Many parents shared these concise, experience-based tips online to prepare teenagers.
I can help guide dozens of students in the classroom but parenting my own teenager? That's a whole different lesson plan,
My 14 year old recently put an Alani in the freezer overnight and it dawned on me that there's a list of things I need to make sure I teach her in four years,
The lesson was: Don't put carbonated drinks in the freezer, Profitt tells TODAY.com, adding that kids can't be expected to know things that adults take for granted.
When I went to college, my aunt told me that anytime I wanted to partake in a substance, that two out of three of these factors should be familiar: people you're with, place you're in, substance you're using. So: new substance must be with familiar people in a familiar place. I'm 29 and I still keep this rule a
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