Friday, November 08, 2013  Freaky Finding Friday: Emerging
adulthood?  Add "emerging adulthood" to your concept of human
development. Put down the basket of dirty laundry that I can
only hope does not belong to your twenty-something living in the
basement and try to think back to Psycholgy 101. Remember the
theories explaining how humans develop from helpless infants to
empty nesters with kids who come to visit then leave? Yep you're
going to have to revise the faded memories to take into account
the still helpless twenty-something in the basement. It's
official because as of last March, the new stage has it's own
journal, Emerging Adulthood. The reality show is scheduled to
be...oh wait, it's here already.  Somehow Erik Erikson, Jean
Piaget and Sigmund Freud, the granddaddies of human development
didn't forsee the stage between high school graduation and
living in a third-floor 1BR apartment without a washer/dryer,
free Wifi or EIK. It's unfortunate because I would have luved to
hear their comments about our