Some sound advice their JJ! Are you speaking from experience now that you're back home?!!
I've one kid - 25 years old - still living with me. He just started a new job, his first in his field, and I've noticed his chores have already gone by the wayside...sigh.
Rules for preventing your children from returning home - My guess is that your parents may have used these tactics to get you out of their basement. Of course, after adjusting to a sub-tropical climate, going back to Canada would require fur lined underwear - no going commando style for you.
My only concern is your inability to appreciate the wonders of Guiness Beer. This is one of the finest things to have left Ireland with the possilbe exception of Sinead O'Connor and Irsh wiskey. There is no accounting for taste. I have even heard of a few people who don't like PB&T.
As your parents reach their declining years, what rules will you use to make sure they don't move in with you? That is, if your parents are still speaking to you by that time.
We just moved into a smaller house, turned the "spare" room into an office. No place for family or friends to stay with us. I think parents do their kids a huge mis-service when they do everything for their offspring. If they are old enough to be working, they should be paying rent, contributing to the grocery bills, household chores, doing their own laundry, unloading the dishwasher and taking out the garbage. You are an adult, just because you are living with your parents doesn't change you back into an adolescent.
Some sound advice their JJ! Are you speaking from experience now that you're back home?!!
I've one kid - 25 years old - still living with me. He just started a new job, his first in his field, and I've noticed his chores have already gone by the wayside...sigh.
Perhaps I should stop feeding him?
Rules for preventing your children from returning home - My guess is that your parents may have used these tactics to get you out of their basement. Of course, after adjusting to a sub-tropical climate, going back to Canada would require fur lined underwear - no going commando style for you.
My only concern is your inability to appreciate the wonders of Guiness Beer. This is one of the finest things to have left Ireland with the possilbe exception of Sinead O'Connor and Irsh wiskey. There is no accounting for taste. I have even heard of a few people who don't like PB&T.
As your parents reach their declining years, what rules will you use to make sure they don't move in with you? That is, if your parents are still speaking to you by that time.
We just moved into a smaller house, turned the "spare" room into an office. No place for family or friends to stay with us. I think parents do their kids a huge mis-service when they do everything for their offspring. If they are old enough to be working, they should be paying rent, contributing to the grocery bills, household chores, doing their own laundry, unloading the dishwasher and taking out the garbage. You are an adult, just because you are living with your parents doesn't change you back into an adolescent.