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Coming Of Age: Dealing With Consequences

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Coming of age

When you become of age you have to learn to be responsible, you have to deal with consequences, and you have to know how to do things like how to manage your money. You have to be responsible because if your not responsible then you would misplace important papers or anything that you will whenever I say consequences, I mean when you have to go jail, or if you have to pay extra for doing a wrong then you have to deal with it. You have to know how to deal with things like managing money, etc because if you dont know how to manage your money then youll go and spend it with out paying attention to how you spend it and you would end up with little or no money

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