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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 638539" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Oh, of course not. Our first course of action is usually leniency, getting them help, and hoping for the best. The harshest action is usually when something so intolerable happens or it just adds up and nothing is getting better at an age when our difficult child should no longer be relying on us for all his/her needs and refuses to get a job. Stealing a lot from us and breaking things and assault are other things that make us go to the harshest extreme. Drug abuse and ending up in jail or prison is another...expecting us to rescue them. I think it is often when we don't feel comfortable in our own home or when our adult child absolutely refuses to grow up and is at home, mooching, at age 25. It's time then to give the grown child a shove out the door. And even then if I had a easy child who was working, paying me rent, helping around the house and not expecting my financial support and respecting my house rules, it would be very hard for me to tell that adult child to leave.</p><p></p><p>However it seldom works out that way. We certainly wouldn't be here if that were the case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 638539, member: 1550"] Oh, of course not. Our first course of action is usually leniency, getting them help, and hoping for the best. The harshest action is usually when something so intolerable happens or it just adds up and nothing is getting better at an age when our difficult child should no longer be relying on us for all his/her needs and refuses to get a job. Stealing a lot from us and breaking things and assault are other things that make us go to the harshest extreme. Drug abuse and ending up in jail or prison is another...expecting us to rescue them. I think it is often when we don't feel comfortable in our own home or when our adult child absolutely refuses to grow up and is at home, mooching, at age 25. It's time then to give the grown child a shove out the door. And even then if I had a easy child who was working, paying me rent, helping around the house and not expecting my financial support and respecting my house rules, it would be very hard for me to tell that adult child to leave. However it seldom works out that way. We certainly wouldn't be here if that were the case. [/QUOTE]
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