It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show Our Missions to serve you and

empower you to make better financial decisions in your life.

This episode used to be common when you turned 17, 18 years old.

You were on your own.

I have a friend who at 15 was on his own.

Today, that's not the norm.

In fact, people argue what is the age that someone becomes an adult.

Now they use this term, emerging adult.

So today, so many connections to our kids continue that are financial.

They stay on our family cell phone plans, our health insurance.

I'm guilty of that for my 23-year-old, both of those things.

And is it right for us to do that as a parent to keep our kids involved financially where

we're taking care of some of these things for them?

It's a tough question.

And later, I've talked about all my trackers.

I've got my Garmin fitness tracker, my Samsung smartwatch, my aura ring.

And yes, I guess that I have an obsessive issue that I'm doing all this.

But do you know that some of the health places out there are spying on us, tracking us,

and sharing our information with others?

Do you know if anything you're doing is doing that kind of stuff?

We're going to talk about that.

So this came up as a topic to talk about in the podcast when we were having a meeting

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