Describe an incident during your emerging adulthood when taking a risk could have led to disaster. What were your feelings at the time? What would you do if you knew that a child of yours was about to do the same thing?
Read a biography or autobiography that includes information about the person’s thinking from adolescence through adulthood. How did personal experiences, education, and maturation affect the person’s thinking?
Statistics on cohort and culture in students and colleges are fascinating, but only a few are reported here. Compare your nation, state, or province with another. Analyze the data and discuss causes and implications of differences.
Talk to three people with whom you would expect to have contrasting views on love and marriage (differences in age, gender, upbringing, experience, and religion might affect attitudes). Ask each the same questions and then compare their answers.