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eCat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:09 pm its just how motivated the kids are

admittedly, I have messed up as a parent......

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:05 pm

eCat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:09 pm its just how motivated the kids are

admittedly, I have messed up as a parent......

Looks like me being the parent you keep saying I am wins.

There is no book.

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 10:32 am Maybe it's different with girls. The oldest got a job in Chapel Hill immediately after graduating and has held one ever since. The youngest moved back in with us for a year (after she graduated from USC) while she got her master's degree in social work at ECU (about a 45 minute commute). She had hooked up with her future husband by then and he basically lived with us too. It was actually kinda nice having them around and I think they wanted to get their own place more than we wanted them to leave. Both of them ended up buying houses with their fiances about a year before they actually got married. I guess grandkids are next...

eCat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:12 pm

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:05 pm

eCat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:09 pm its just how motivated the kids are

admittedly, I have messed up as a parent......

Looks like me being the parent you keep saying I am wins.

There is no book.

yea it would look like that to you

that's the problem

sardis wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 9:23 am

eCat wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:44 pm

sardis wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:23 pm A speaker from the Federal Reserve spoke to us a few weeks ago and said that, for the first time since WWII, over 50% of 18-29 year old males live with their parents. That’s even with college attending kids being backed out of the numbers.

mine is one of them

I'm reaching the end of my benevolence on the matter

My youngest kid is a junior business major in a local college and the least ambitious of my three. He has an aversion to work and tried to weasel out of getting a summer job until July when I figured his game and made him go to work. When he graduates, he will most likely not be assertive enough to get employment. Since he is the only kid left, he has the whole finished basement to himself that has a kitchen, bathroom, a separate bedroom, big screen tv, etc. I told my wife, if he is still hanging around after graduation, i'm charging him $1,000 a month. She thought that was too much, but with him getting utilities, laundry, wi-fi, food, car insurance, phone bill, etc. it seems reasonable to me. Wife thinks it should only be $300 because mom's somehow have soft spots for their sons. Even if he works 40 hours at fast food, he can make $1,000 a month easily.

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:14 pm Hopefully this weekend...

hedge wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 10:32 am Maybe it's different with girls. The oldest got a job in Chapel Hill immediately after graduating and has held one ever since. The youngest moved back in with us for a year (after she graduated from USC) while she got her master's degree in social work at ECU (about a 45 minute commute). She had hooked up with her future husband by then and he basically lived with us too. It was actually kinda nice having them around and I think they wanted to get their own place more than we wanted them to leave. Both of them ended up buying houses with their fiances about a year before they actually got married. I guess grandkids are next...