"Native Americans seemd to know what to do with teenagers. Their culture provided challenges; meaning; episodes of freedom; festivals with drugs, music, campfires, mad dancing; and adults on hand as guides."
- The Happiness Myth by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Sounds pretty good to me...
By the way, that is an excellent book, about how things that are supposed to help people have a happy life change from generation to generation and century to century. For instance, taking opium and cocaine were good unless you overindulged, pretty much like alcoholic drinks, up till about 100 years ago.
Now I'm onto the section about religion...
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