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...encouraging girls to start taking small risks that may seem trivial, like jumping over a log or sliding backwards down a slide, they will eventually become accustomed to the success that follows, removing the fear that usually accompanies such risks and building confidence that will accompany them into adulthood...
...drink!), but it seems like two decades of life should mean something. After all, I’m no longer a teen, so I guess my angst-ridden days are far behind me. I used to think that coming to college was supposed to mark my transition into adulthood, but in many ways, it feels like this college has caused my transformation to inch along at an interminable pace...
...this labeling confusion indicates, the question of when adulthood begins is unsettled across culture. Plenty of writers today have waxed eloquent about the trend of twenty-somethings that spend years in a sheltered limbo between adolescence and adulthood—a 2005 Times article called them “twixters.” People are settling down later, having children later, and it seems we can wait as long as we want to grow up. We are the product of society in which, perhaps more than ever before, age is really just a number. Independence and responsibility, the things that...
Above all, it was having children of my own that most messed with my life cycle. Being allowed to walk out of the hospital with that child in my arms - no instruction manual, no warranty - sealed the certainty of adulthood in a way no car keys or paycheck or mortgage ever had. Their birthdays loomed so large that ours could discreetly recede. My diet would soon include, once again, cupcakes and macaroni and applesauce. The first time we all went to the circus, I felt 6 years old too. (See iPhone apps for new moms...
World affairs have been a constant presence in Mika Brzezinski's life since she was a young girl. Her father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was the powerful National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter. She spent her young adulthood behind or in front of TV cameras, working her way up as a broadcaster on ABC, Fox and CBS, where she worked as an anchor and 60 Minutes correspondent. In 2006, however, she was unceremoniously (and very publicly) let go for reasons she says she still doesn't understand. Brzezinski is currently the co-host of the MSNBC show Morning Joe, with...