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From the Ted Talk by Tameka Montgomery: 5 parenting tips for raising resilient, self-reliant kids

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More young adults are living at home and for longer stretches. And this was occurring even before the ________. A Pew Research study found that 52 percent of _____ adults are living at home, which is the highest percentage since the Great Depression. And what we're _______ is that young ______ are stuck between adolescence and adulthood. And that's the generation of people that we're raising. And in fact, we hear this in the ________ that young adults even use when they have to make responsible adult _________. There's a term for it. Who knows what that is? Adulting, yes. The practice of ________ in a characteristic of a responsible adult.

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  1. young
  2. decisions
  3. finding
  4. language
  5. behaving
  6. pandemic
  7. adults

Original Text

More young adults are living at home and for longer stretches. And this was occurring even before the pandemic. A Pew Research study found that 52 percent of young adults are living at home, which is the highest percentage since the Great Depression. And what we're finding is that young adults are stuck between adolescence and adulthood. And that's the generation of people that we're raising. And in fact, we hear this in the language that young adults even use when they have to make responsible adult decisions. There's a term for it. Who knows what that is? Adulting, yes. The practice of behaving in a characteristic of a responsible adult.

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