Why You Need to Stop Telling Young Women Not to Call you Ma'am! Try "Thank You Young Lady!"
I recently spent an absorbent amount of time trying to help my oldest child find her wings. She graduated from college around the time of the pandemic and "failure to launch" affects her generation. The jobs are not readily available for these graduates. The pandemic disrupted their college experience, and they have accepted themselves as the "failure to launch" generation. I feel bad for their timing but there is an overall attitude that they got screwed when it comes to adulting. So I tried to help my little bird find new ways to invent herself. I invested time and money and we both came up short. What I thought would be a learning experience, completely turned on me. In the end, I wasted thousands of dollars and a ridiculous amount of time on a project she just discarded. To make matters worse she now seems to blame me for keeping her from making personal progress. I was trying to help the child find her b...