The mission of this book is to help parents by giving them a comprehensive list of the life skills their children need to master to be safe, healthy, productive, confident, and independent adults. The "you are not allowed to leave this house until you have these skills" list. This should end up being a living document for you and your family. A checklist to a better future for your children. Lucinda Segneri has a unique perspective on what a young adult should know. She worked for more than a decade as a human resources manager, seeing what made good employees and bad, who was hired and promoted, and why. After graduate school, she worked for years as a professor of management and economics at an American university, watching young people either excel or sink. She is now applying what she has learned from these experiences to her own three children. With this book, she will help you do the same for yours. Let's get started