Students and collegiate 4-Hers at the University of Tennessee's Herbert College of Agriculture are sharing life lessons and practical skills through a video series. In the Life Savvy 101 online collection, college and teen viewers learn topics like handling money, how to do laundry, and ways to manage stress. Here's more on Adulting Made Easy. Hello, I'm Charles Denny.
This is Agcast, brought to you by the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. Mama can't do your laundry forever. So if you want clean clothes, eventually you've got to learn about detergent and what colors can go in the machine at the same time. And the new thing I've been trying is how to pause.
You can simply just take your little thing and just fling it in there. Laundry lessons are part of a new online video series called Life Savvy 101, the audience, young adults in college, or teens preparing for life beyond their childhood home. And starring in the videos and dispensing the advice, students with UT's Herbert College of Agriculture. Haley Kelso was in a video about reconciling bank statements.
Why do you think it's important for college students and even younger to learn stuff like this? Oh, it's super important. When you come to college, you're basically on your own now. You have to grow up and you have to check your bank statements.
You have to do laundry, but you also have to manage stress of being an adult now too. So these Life Savvy videos are really going to be helpful for the upcoming freshmen. Just learning about how to do life, how to balance life and school and maybe a job possibly. In terms of generational names, we're now beyond millennials.
No exact date here, but if someone is born after the mid-90s, they're called Generation Z. And the Zs have a name for these skills, Adulting. And I don't know what I'm going to do. I've got $23 in my bank account and rent's coming up.
I've got utilities, my electric, my gas, my water, my sewer. It just keeps adding up. Other bills too, like yourself on bill. In this video, students talk about handling money using mobile banking apps.
UT Extension's Family and Consumer Sciences unit combined with Collegiate 4-H to produce the series. Experts selected topics they believe today's youth need to learn. The UT Institute of Agriculture is also teaming with the University of Florida on this project. And while some of the videos are still being produced, you can learn more at extension.tenacy.edu slash Life Savvy 101.
Alice and Penn with UT Extension is helping coordinate the subject matter. Exactly. So we have done a little bit of research and we have within a couple different universities and we've determined through talking with parents and young adults that there are some life skills that they don't have when they leave their parents home for the first time and live on their own. So we're actually working in foreign primary areas, money, health, family or relationships and food.
And so which line up with our family and consumer science and subject matter? So we're talking about how do you pay your bills on time? We don't do so many things. You know, as college students, I just seem to create so much stress.
Jerome Lin-year was in a video on ways to manage stress. He recommends exercise and eating right, get away from the books on occasion and find your passion. Why is it important that college students to hear that kind of message? Because they're going to be stressed.
And you know, I think it's just for that reason right there. It's just as a fair warning. You know, there's no, you don't come to college and not be stressed once. That's just not going to happen.
You know, we don't live in this magical fairy land where nothing's going to go wrong. That's a fair point and a big reason for making these videos to prepare young people for the so-called real world. Students should be focused on academic goals but also learn about life as part of their college journey. Adulting is just that, picking up the skills of an effective adult.
Thanks for listening. I'm Charles Denny. For more real life solutions provided by the UT Institute of Agriculture, go to our website at ag.tenacy.edu.