About Us
Our Story 📖
The Grown-Up School is a completely free, open-access online resource that aims to help anyone and everyone to feel more prepared for grown-up life. ✨
No matter what age you are, growing up is scary. 😬
One minute you’re having fun in school..
..the next you’re expected to understand everything from tax and mortgages, to health care and politics! 😭
The Grown-Up School makes “adulting lessons” free and accessible for all..
..so that everyone has an equal opportunity to become a successful grown-up. 💖
Life doesn’t come with a handbook – so here’s our survival guide. 🏕️
Why The Grown-Up School? ✨
The Grown-Up School supports wannabe grown-ups worldwide. 🌎
We are an international movement, motivating people to “grow up!” 🎓
Laura Abraham
Founder
Did you know?
Research has shown that:
87% of British people don’t feel like they were adequately prepared for life as an adult, — saying they weren’t taught the life skills they needed before leaving full-time education. (Metro News)
These are things like:
- managing money💸
- understanding relationships 🤝
- preparing for a career 💼
- looking after our wellbeing 🧠
- getting and looking after a home… 🏡
… things that have a huge bearing on someone’s potential for success in life.
Why don’t people learn life skills?
There are 2 main places where people typically learn life skills:
Schools🧑🏫
Life skills are not always covered by schools, and education systems worldwide are experiencing intense pressure following the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is changing, however there are generations of people who may have missed out on the opportunity to learn grown-up skills.
According to CBI, about 1 in 4 young adults don’t feel prepared by education for the world of work, let alone the world itself.
Parents/Guardians 👪
Surveys have also shown that nearly half of parents don’t feel equipped to teach their children important life skills.
There are also:
- 2.9 million single parent families in the UK,
- 80,000 children in care,
- 14.5 million people in poverty,
- and an estimated 8.3 million people already struggling with debt.
Should we rely on parents to “just know” how to teach life skills? 🤷♀️
Or should we expect a strained education system to change things? 😟
I don’t think so.
This is why during the Covid-19 pandemic I quit my career in finance (managing a £7.6 billion savings portfolio) to follow my passion – teaching people grown-up skills.
To date I’ve taught life skills in schools to 1000s of young people in the highest areas of poverty in the UK, and now I’m reaching a global audience.
I have created an open-access online resource that aims to help anyone and everyone to feel more prepared for grown-up life.
I hope you’ll join me in spreading awareness of the free help offered by The Grown-Up School, by telling people to “Grow up!” 😉
Laura x
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