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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 609123" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Suz, I don't consider anyone a bad parent for what they do with their grown kids. I no longer think of parenting as something t hat is done when a child can legally do as he pleases. In fact, my relationship with all my kids, Jumper included, is more a listener and friend now than a parent who tells them right from wrong unless they ask me. Most of the time, my kids want me to listen to them.They know they can tell me anything (well, unless it's "Hey b****" lol). So I don't judge people who allow their thirty/forty year old drug addicted sons and daughters who still live in their homes and don't work as being bad parents. I think of them as being victims of their grown children.</p><p></p><p> </p><p>Great post, Sig. As usual <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I am still speaking to 35, but I am trying not to get emotionally involved in his words and I am deciding when it is ok for me to talk to him. If I'm not in the mood, I just let the phone ring. If I'm up to it...I try. I set boundaries. If he calls me a name...bubye! And I keep a physical distance between us as I am afraid to visit him and become too close to him in his present state of mind. He would always shove or push or even hit. Lord only knows what he'd do now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 609123, member: 1550"] Suz, I don't consider anyone a bad parent for what they do with their grown kids. I no longer think of parenting as something t hat is done when a child can legally do as he pleases. In fact, my relationship with all my kids, Jumper included, is more a listener and friend now than a parent who tells them right from wrong unless they ask me. Most of the time, my kids want me to listen to them.They know they can tell me anything (well, unless it's "Hey b****" lol). So I don't judge people who allow their thirty/forty year old drug addicted sons and daughters who still live in their homes and don't work as being bad parents. I think of them as being victims of their grown children. Great post, Sig. As usual :) I am still speaking to 35, but I am trying not to get emotionally involved in his words and I am deciding when it is ok for me to talk to him. If I'm not in the mood, I just let the phone ring. If I'm up to it...I try. I set boundaries. If he calls me a name...bubye! And I keep a physical distance between us as I am afraid to visit him and become too close to him in his present state of mind. He would always shove or push or even hit. Lord only knows what he'd do now. [/QUOTE]
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