Kids Are Better At This Than Adults Are

Guest host Melissa Knowles of Trending Now steps in for Ali today to discuss what it really means to be a grownup. Kelly Williams Brown is the author of Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) steps.

Why 468? “I just put all the steps in there that I thought were good and useful, and 468 it was,” she says.

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One of the crucial steps to becoming an adult, “knowing how bleach works,” Kelly says. “Don’t pour it directly on things. Just dilute it, and it’s a great way to clean.”

The hardest step, she says, is accepting that, “despite how your parents feel, despite how your friends feel, what your teachers have told you: you are not a special snowflake.”

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Something kids dare better at than adults though, Kelly says, is “letting things roll off their backs and not taking it personally.”

So what’s the easiest step to becoming an adult? Check out this episode of Daily Shot!