What Should Parents Make of the ‘Summer Bucket List 2017’?

By now you may have heard about the “Summer Bucket List 2017” that was seemingly written by a teenage girl and reportedly discovered in an Urban Outfitters dressing room in Pittsburgh. The items on the list range from endearing (“Pet a giraffe”) to alarming (“Get crossfaded” — simultaneously drunk and high — “17 times”) and from fanciful (“Tie a message to a balloon and let it go”) to practical (“Do summer reading”). The list appears to offer an unfiltered peek at one teenage girl’s summer plans.