1001 Things Every Teen Should Know Before They Leave Home (or else they'll come back)

Is the name of a little book by Harry Harrison, Jr. that lists important bits of life data to keep launched young people, well, launched.  On their own.  Away from the nest.  According to the introduction, a full 50% of teens who leave home return to live within five or six years.  This, for many parents, is a bad thing.  Thus, the book.

I am including a few of the Things here for your enjoyment:

• 1.  They should know that adulthood is not for sissies.
• 2.  They should know that they are graduating into a world where employers get mad, dishwashers break, and money is hard to come by.
• 21.  They should know that the difference between owning a Mercedes or washing one for a living, is usually education.
• 32.  They should know that Bill Gates lost $40 billion in eighteen months, Donald Trump declared bankruptcy, and Michael Jordan couldn't make his high school basketball team.
• 50.  They should know that the biggest difference between childhood and adulthood is that in adulthood you really can't give up.
• 518.  They should know they can either be happy or they can be right.  People who are right all the time are single.
• 548.  They should know that the inability to keep a home orderly and clean is a clear sign of someone who still needs mothering.
• 786.  They should have an adult's vocabulary so they don't sound like a teenager and have to move home.  
• 791.  They should know where their money is, where it is going and how to get it.  Always.
• 917.  They should know their ethics and values will always be under attack.  It's the world we live in.
• 997.  They should know to develop spiritual and mental endurance.

This is a cute book, about 4 x 6 inches, about $6.  Thomas Nelson Publishers.  A great grad gift or gift for a friend with soon to launch kids, sort of a 'have I covered all these things' list.