Amber told me that her 18 year old son Dan had no common sense. “He just doesn’t get it,” she stated. “He always seems to make bad choices. I tell him what he is doing will not work but he just won’t listen. He doesn’t listen to anyone, he always thinks his way is right.”

Dan’s story is not unusual. Many of our youth act and behave in ways that do not seem rational. This inability to make sound decisions gets in their way of achieving success. They seem to be their own worst enemy. Things that seem so obvious to us just seem to escape their attention. “It's just common sense, for goodness sake!”

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