Being a good grown-up Lesson 40 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Being a grown-up is not only paying bills and going to work; it is also about what kind of person you are when things are hard. 1 Good grown-ups keep their promises, say no kindly when they have too much, ask for help, own up to mistakes, stay kind when stressed, spot tricks and look after the people who need them. 3 Grown-ups also live through changes they cannot stop: getting older, parents slowing down, friends drifting away and children leaving home. 4 Good grown-ups face these with honesty and love. 5 Being reliable means doing what you said you would, even when you no longer feel like it; people trust those who keep their word. 6 The secret of reliable people is to only promise what they can really do. 7 Grown-ups must sometimes say no, or they do too much and get exhausted; a kind, clear no is better than a yes that never gets done. 8 Friendships change as people move, start jobs and have families; some fade, new ones grow, and old friends can sometimes pick up again as if no time had passed. 9 Asking for help is a grown-up skill; people think better of someone who asks than of someone who hides a problem until it explodes. 10 Being kind when you are stressed and in a hurry, like letting a car in during a traffic jam, is harder than being kind when things are easy. 11 A scam is a fake message trying to trick people into giving away passwords or money; real banks never ask for your password by email or text. 12 Many grown-ups look after their own parents and their children at the same time; it is loving but tiring, and small help takes some of the load off. 13 Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom. 14 When a grandparent is "slowing down", they may need more help, more doctor visits and more company from their family. 16 Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix, while hiding them tends to make them bigger. ← previous Money, work and the big choicesnext → Our street: who parked where and who won what↑ back to Adult life This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/