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We should have trusted Peter Pan when he said, "Never grow up." Growing up is a trap. That's what it is. Once one becomes an adult, some often unpleasant things become inevitable. Spending most of the time working and having little time for yourself and your family, living paycheck to paycheck; these are just some common adulting problems. And while we could grumble about all the dreary things that come with adulthood, we could also ignore them for a while and look at the funny side of things. Those are adult problems that (spoiler alert) are not, in fact, actual problems, or at least not something to worry about.

The Facebook page Adult Problems does precisely that. The page's content is all about sharing First World problems and silly problems adults face daily. Funny jokes for adults, self-deprecating humor, and sometimes actual problems adults encounter that many can relate to is what the posts featured on this page are about. In fact, being an adult is very much about knowing the difference between actual and trivial problems that can be laughed about and not taken seriously. 

Hence, to chuckle about the latter, we compiled the adult version of the First World problems list, which is pretty much just a compilation of funny jokes about being an adult. Saw a First World problem you can relate to? Make sure to give it an upvote. Also, what are some adult problems that you face regularly? Share them in the comments!

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Lakota Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd like to be able to opt out of child care classes, though. I'm never having children, and I would resent the hell out of being forced to take a class on how to take care of them.

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Lara M
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Relationship psychology and how to identify early signs of abuse.

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John Topper
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of these could be combined, but there is a critical one missing. Basic law! We are all subjected to a legal system of which we know literally nothing about. Teach kids what the Miranda rights actually mean, what contracts can and can't do, basically all the ways you can accidentally destroy your entire life without knowing you're doing anything wrong.

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3 Owls In A Coat
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes!! SO many life skills we could and should be teaching kids in school, how did we get so far off track? At least I learned that a2 + b2 = c2, that’s helped me a lot more in my life than any legal or financial planning education 🙄

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OmBoyGanesh
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Civics. How a basic government works, how the law works and the difference between a criminal complaint & a civil issue.

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John Dilligaf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

do you mean how basic government and the law SHOULD work, or how they actually DO work? Like the difference between Schoolhouse Rock's version of how a bill becomes a law and how it actually does

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would add "survial kit" including basic cooking/mecanic (changing a tire)/ house repair and performing CPR

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Civics. Reagan got it kicked out of public schools. We're reaping that legacy now.

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CGZ
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We used to have that. It was called Home Economics. We cooked something.

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Chrissie Anit
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Many of these topics have been taken care of by family, taught by parents in the past. The attitude towards school seems to have changed over the last years, often parents delegate the work that they have been doing/should do to the schools (e.g. because they are working and don't have the time, or because they don't know this themselves, or because they are lazy). School can't take care of everything, unfortunately.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I totally agree! The whole systems is dysfunctional. Both parents often are forced to work full-time while teachers are expected to master the difficulties of modern life on minimal wage and facing overwhelming numbers of pupils. In the last decades the classes got bigger and bigger, social problems skyrocketed (like broken homes, alienated parents, legal battles between parents... ). On top of those problems there is a rise in children with special needs (adhd, dyslexia...) and immigrant kids... All of those children are in desperate need of highly individualized support and care. Teachers on the other hand lack the education to deal with these troubled children, they are under pressure to drag every student through a premande plan, they are faced with growing classes and some parents are on top high-maintenance... My sister is pan elementary teacher and I myself worked briefly as one. You are always the a*****e in the public eye, you are desperate to meet all of the children's needs

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Alleman Jennifer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This way kids wld have some skills that might give them an ability or chance to adult. Many parents coddle their kids onto helplessness.

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John Topper
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Taxes would only be needed because scumbags at Intuit (of TurboTax fame) keep lobbying against simplifying it. There is literally no reason for it to be so complicated except a handful of jerks want to gouge us every year.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of these are taught to the less academic kids in my country. Unfortunately, those destined for university are too busy chasing grades.

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Lydia
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But biology is taught in school throughout the years !

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Rachel Grig
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also meditation, self-regulation, ability to handle criticism.

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Marie Dahme
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And when are they going to teach basic sexual health education in class ? To at least know the biology of their growing bodies, prevent STD’s, and I know this may sound harsh but at least let young men know that menstruation isn’t something women can hold it until they go pee ? We have TWO holes guys and they do two different things ! Lol

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Cassia Beagle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NOT accounting. Personal finance maybe. Too many people in college flunk real accounting.

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Steve Wusterbarth
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, our curriculum is set by the State, which is overseen by our legislators, which the people elect into office. You have a direct line to make those changes. Help us help you!

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Janet C
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cooking, basic cleaning skills, basic auto care (check oil, change a tire, change a battery)

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Helen Bird
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How to build and keep good RELATIONSHIPS. I. E. Interpersonal communication skills.

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Scrapiechick
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Going to be unpopular post, but it has to be asked....aren't life skills something parents should be teaching their children?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Instead, we got to learn about the climate ideal for crop cultivation in America while living in India🤦‍♀️

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Marie Dahme
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Home Economics like I was taught 40 years ago covered some of this plus sewing buttons on shirts,, learning how to cook, shop for groceries, basic childcare …..and now many schools do NOT teach this. Why???? Because we need more money funneled to the school board’s salaries???

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i was in work program in High School that was separate from the higher academic classes. Math was all about budgeting, taxes, insurance, stocks and bonds, etc. Career Ed. class was all about interviews, job searching, cover letters, resumes and 3 week onsite work stints for school credit 3 times a year at various types of businesses of your choice. Keyboarding class was all about improving accuracy and speed while typing. These were mandated to be in the program. English, History were normal. Phys Ed was all about nutrition, CPR, anatomy and what exercise does to the body. There might have been a little bit of self-defense but some moves are considered illegal in Canada, so it's more about knowing when to walk away, how to block and hold, that kind of thing. Despite what you learn in school, not everyone applies everything they learned in their adult years.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nope. #1 should be sex ed cuz these ppl stupid about the reproductive system

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David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My senior year of HS I filled a needed math credit with a class called "Consumer Math". I thought it was going to be at least 3 if not 4 items on the list above. Turned out it was just "Bonehead math" for math fails that needed some math credit. Literally started with single digit addition and subtraction. Stuff I had in maybe 2n'd or 3rd grade. Fortunately teacher let me just show up once a week and turn in all the work. Easy A.

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Scott Rackley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They used to teach a class that covered 2, 3, 4, 5, it was called economics. Yes, in high school.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn't agree more, being a teacher myself, as well as a person who wishes I would have been taught those things when I was in school. Taxes still baffle me!

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John Dilligaf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

add basic first aid and how to do research & identify vetted, legitimate sources of information to that list

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smugdruggler
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would add logic and critical thinking. Teach them HOW to think, not WHAT to think.

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Kim Lorton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely! The building blocks of being a productive adult member of society.... hopefully. One of the best things I ever learned was how to balance my checkbook. Before I went off to college, my mom or my dad would sit down with me, like 6 months before I actually left.. and taught me how to handle money. Balancing the check book, deposit, savings and withdrawal. I never bounced a check in my entire life, ever. That makes me proud. And, I check on my account/ our account at least 3X a week.

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Maikai
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Electives: entrepreneurship, mental healthcare, hygiene/cleanliness, contract basics, resource inventory (knowing where & how to find help/info esp from govt & non profits committed to public service)

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A Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. I was lucky to have a high-school that had an Independent Living elective class. I took it and greatly benefited from it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of these are taught in personal finance. But unfortunately it's an elective class. Nutrition is taught in health class

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

- Critical thinking - Social Media : privacy settings, what not to post and how to deal with the risk of getting addicted to it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! Instead of some of the more useless courses we were forced to take. Although, I will say that the 2nd semester of my Senior year, there was a class that we all had to take that went thru how to balance a checkbook and write a check. Some little stuff like that.

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Phil Green
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Self Care - cookery, basic health, fixing stuff, child care...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

100% agree. I would have been so much better off if these had been taught in school.

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Catherine Scallon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Things I think that parents should be teaching: oh, hang on, it’s the same list…

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh hell no the remote belongs to me now. Will add to my collection of remotes for things I do not have nor will ever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another subject desperately needed in school. Basic working skills, how to search for and apply for a job in our time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nor is it the responsibility of anyone else to supply the things you can't afford. Teach your kids about the cost of living and give them your time and attention instead.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

then we shall join together, i have been working on a size changer,and i shall become your giant mount to ride into battle!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sad result here, however, I've called and hired people months later after the initial candidate flamed out. It can happen!

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