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Brooding: Was ‘Adulting’ Actually Good for Us?

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If the self-help top-seller were written now, its lessons would look a lot different.

This article originally appeared in Brooding , a newsletter delivering deep thoughts on modern family life. Sign up here . Illustration: Hannah Buckman Ten years ago, Kelly Williams Brown’s advice book Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps was published. The book’s success went beyond its place on the New York Times’ best-seller list to become part of the Obama-era Zeitgeist. The word adulting acknowledged that adolescence now extends into the second and often third decade of life and that young adults prefer self-deprecating their way to some kind of behavioral maturity ra

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