grown-up point

grown-up point (plural grown-up points)

1. A notional point awarded (to younger persons) for instances of individual behaviour that characterizes life as an adult.
   • 2008 December 23, Andreas Arvman, “Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility”, in The Honolulu Advertiser‎:

     Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility. […] Buying a potted plant: 1 grown-up point. Keeping it alive for a year: 10 points.

   • 2015 June 25, Eleanor Jones, “25 purchases that prove you've become a grown up”, in Cosmopolitan‎:

     Bonus grown up points if you consider yourself 'addicted'.

   • 2016 May 9, Emily Yoshida, “The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 3, Oathbreaker”, in The Verge‎:

     I was so looking forward to awarding some Grown Up points to Tommen Baratheon this week, who is clearly smarting over his inability to do much of anything.

   • 2017 February 27, Kate Shellnutt, “The case for going to bed at 2:30 am”, in Vox‎:

     For bonus grown-up points, you complain that you can’t make it to midnight, even on New Year’s Eve.