Role modeling
Here's one good thing I think I've taught my students this year:
When you move out of your mom's place, you don't have to move in with your spouse or spouse-equivalent. You can move in with your housemates. You can sustain this lifestyle choice well into adulthood, as long as you don't mind continuing to be read as young and cheerful. If your housemates are especially wonderful, you don't even ever have to shut up about them. You can bore everyone with domestic details just like married people do.
That's a top-priority message for teenagers who plan never to hit a college dorm! I'll stand by that. I don't mind being a missionary for that church. I wish I'd been converted earlier myself.
All this other stuff I'm supposed to be teaching them ... well, they've still got time, right?
When you move out of your mom's place, you don't have to move in with your spouse or spouse-equivalent. You can move in with your housemates. You can sustain this lifestyle choice well into adulthood, as long as you don't mind continuing to be read as young and cheerful. If your housemates are especially wonderful, you don't even ever have to shut up about them. You can bore everyone with domestic details just like married people do.
That's a top-priority message for teenagers who plan never to hit a college dorm! I'll stand by that. I don't mind being a missionary for that church. I wish I'd been converted earlier myself.
All this other stuff I'm supposed to be teaching them ... well, they've still got time, right?