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Adults Are More Mature When It Comes to Teens

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Essay title: Adults Are More Mature When It Comes to Teens

Adults are more mature when it comes to Teens.

In the United States today, teenagers will have to build the maturity levels and their responsibilities in order to become a successful adult, with a high paying job. The differences that separate the adults from the teens are their responsibilities, self-centeredness, and the jobs that are offered. Although successful adults have some of the same traits they were once immature teens too.

There are a lot of responsibilities that follow from teenage years on up to adolescence. Teenage responsibilities are consisting of school, homework, and extra curriculum activities. One of their most important responsibilities is school. They have to maintain a certain grade point average in order to graduate from school. They have to get up everyday to attend class, keep their grades up, and they have to be on time to school. Homework is another responsibility; they have to do all homework assigned. They can choose not to do the homework but, it may come with some consequences. Extra curriculum activities they have to attend that they have signed up for to get those scholarships for college. Adult’s responsibilities are way different for starters they have to pay bills. Bills are the biggest responsibility adults can have. Everyday adults have to pay rent or morgue to have a place to live in. They have to pay car notes, insurance, along with the gas, and have to maintain the maintenance of the car. Another one of the adult’s responsibilities is that they have is to go to work everyday and be on time to keep their careers. They go to work to receive steady pay, to pay their bills. Adult’s have bigger responsibilities that so often teenagers take advantage of.

Teenagers have a very negative attitude when it comes to obeying authority figures, but they also may have positive attitudes when it comes to getting their way. Adults and teens can be very self-centered at times. Ninety percent of the time it’s the teens that are the most self-centered. Self-centered teens will only view their ways when they’re in the wrong. Selfish teens can be very upsetting to many people when the selfishness comes out. They would go by themselves shoes and clothes rather than asking the caretaker “how can they help out with the bills?” An adult has more of the positive attitude toward obeying authority figures, but you get some that aren’t as positive. Adults are most likely willing to corporate with others and just avoid conflict at times. They won’t just give up on things when the job gets to hard as majority of the teens would. Adults have multiple views and will not only see just one side of the situation. They will share and give

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