Which of these do you feel is most necessary to being an adult?

Question

A - Driving a car and putting safely first including staying close to the speed limits.

B - Avoiding becoming drunk.

C - Being settled into a career which has the potential of being long-term.

D - Being financially independent from ones parents.

E - Completing your education.

F - Becoming a parent.

G - Having the ability to exhibit good emotional control.

H - Other

Your thoughts?

Answer 1

D> is the only one here that meets the criteria to answer your question.. Kids have kids, adults get drunk, lots of emotionally immature people have careers, lots of immature people have completed educations,


many kids have great control of their emotions...

Answer 2

A - Driving a car and putting safety first including staying close to the speed limits. = RESPONSIBLE ADULT BEHAVIOR IF YOU APPLY SAFETY TO ANYTHING. FIRST, SPELL IT CORRECTLY (CHECK YOUR QUESTION)

B - Avoiding becoming drunk. = ONCE WITH FRIENDS IS OKAY. DON'T GET DRUNK FOR NO REASON IN AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT. USE TOLERANCE

C - Being settled into a career which has the potential of being long-term. = NOT REALITY FOR MOST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

D - Being financially independent from ones parents. = SOME KIDS HAVE NO PARENTS. NEXT...

E - Completing your education. = SOME EDUCATED PEOPLE ARE STILL BAD ADULTS

F - Becoming a parent. = SOME KIDS ARE PARENTS

G - Having the ability to exhibit good emotional control. = SOME KIDS DO THIS TOO

H - Other

I think the first one covers it best : Learning to be safe and responsible. That doesn't mean you can't live a little but limits are only learned by growing up.

Answer 3

Nice list - very interesting.

I really felt it for a fleeting moment when I opened a Flex account (pre-tax dollars you move into a spending account for out of pocket medical expenses). I felt as though I needed to get an AARP card afterwards.

But my pick is becoming a parent - I have no children - for all intents and purposes I am an adult, but not having children keeps my perspective a little more youthful - even married, I still feel allowed to be my own person all of the time. I expect this to change should I have children, especially with my personal standards. So for the moment, I allow myself all the self serving pleasures I choose.

All of the options are great - financial independence is a close second.

Answer 4

Several of these rank at the top, but financially being independent would be the most important. Without being able to financially be in control of your life wrecks havoc on anything else you would want to do, such as an education, being a parent, being in a good career, owning and caring for a car, or good emotional control. If you can't earn money, then pay bills, then put some away for later, you are not yet ready to any of the other things in your life. And they all will surely fail because you are in debt and overdrawn and overspent on credit cards.
So, my vote is to first get financially solvent. All else follows.

Answer 5

Honestly, Out of all of those. I'd say D. But for me it was having a child. I was Married at 20 and had a child at 23. It was at that point in which I felt like I was an Adult. Because I had to finally worry about someone other than myself, and be responsible for the well being of another person, her life was in my hands.

Answer 6

All of those things are important. You could put them in order, I suppose, as some will come to you before others.

I would add that you need to realize that everything has a consequence. You have to be able to think about what will or can happen if and when you do or say something. You also need to be able to see another's viewpoint -- try to see both sides of a situation before you decide how you feel about it.

Answer 7

Remembering what it was like to be a child, and being able to be that 'child' occasionally. A person who is intelligent and wise will see that this is the MOST NECESSARY part of being an adult ... the rest is all 'following rules' and you must do that for the 'letting out the child inside' to work properly.

Answer 8

D - Being financially independent from ones parents

Answer 9

I think they're all good answers, but I'll choose H, with an explanation.
H-Other--Developing the ability to make wise, responsible and ethical decisions

This answer, I feel would help someone to be able to accomplish all of the answers from A to G..

Answer 10

D. That just screams independence. As a matter of fact, I'll go as far as to say that it would be a springboard for mst of the other choices. Financial independence shows maturity and stabalization.