Do they ever grow up?

[ThreeShadows]

Our Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Maine told us years ago that the difficult children would mature when they were about 28 y.o.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30809741/?gt1=43001

 

[flutterby]

Good god. He's 28 years old and living in his parents basement. What political career?

 

[DammitJanet]

How bad is the room? I cant get the video to load on dial up.

Im dying to know because I could go snap a picture of Billy's room...lol.

 

[gcvmom]

Hmmm... it would appear that husband is also somewhat delayed.

Janet, they don't show him or his room. It's just Kathie Lee Gifford and someone else chatting about it.

 

[DammitJanet]

Well then, how are we supposed to know what it looks like? One mans messy room is another mans just untidy room! I mean really!

 

[ThreeShadows]

To me it's more about the fact that he threw a plate at his dad and showed him a fist....dad had to have felt scared enough to call 911.

 

[maril]

Maybe it's time for the 28yo to move out...sounds like he has two jobs going.

I wish a flying plate of food and making a fist was all we ever had had to deal with, lol. Luckily, my difficult children raging behavior has ceased.

 

[Abbey]

One word - enabling.

 

[Star*]

Another word -

OMG are you serious - wait that's 4 words.

Four words

OMG are you serious?

But then again I look into the office next to me where a 28 soon to be 29 year old COLLEGE graduate with a major in CUllinary management (whatever that is) sits - and is "the pooper" and lives with Mom and Dad and I think.....ah - they should have done the story on the pooper.

 

[ThreeShadows]

Star, ethnic difference here, what is a "pooper"?

 

[Abbey]

Star, ethnic difference here, what is a "pooper"?

Someone who cruds on another. That would be my definition.

Elder Abb

 

[Steely]

OMG!!!!
Unbelievable.
How could he be on a school board and still be that immature???
This world.

 

[trinityroyal]

Star, ethnic difference here, what is a "pooper"?

I think the "pooper" is the one who leaves...erm...aromatic evidence behind him, after visits to the men's room. I think Star's words were "not fit for man nor beast", or something to that effect.

As for Living-at-home dude...I really do think that it takes some people a lot longer to finish cooking than it does others. And having enabling parents just doesn't help matters.

My difficult child-brother lived with our difficult child-parents until he was nearly 30, when he finally moved out at the insistance of his then-fiance.

I got endless amounts of grief from them for moving out when I was 17 (in Ontario, you can leave home at 16). They pressured me to come back, offered me money, a car, all sorts of things...it was really dysfunctional. I just wanted to grow up and do my own thing, and they were desperate to stop me.

Weird.