This actually used to be the way of parenting until a couple of generations ago. Just stay out of kids way and they'll figure it out. Be there to make sure they

This actually used to be the way of parenting until a couple of generations ago. Just stay out of kids way and they'll figure it out. Be there to make sure they don't kill themselves or others. But otherwise you don't curate their lives. We're infantalizing everyone now. I was in a law school class (everyone 25+) where the federal judge lecturer called us all "kids." The age of majority seems to have inflated up from 18 to around 27 in America.