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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 633593" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Yes, following through is hard. Much harder than knowing what to do. It's why we take such baby steps with our son. We told him to have a job in a month. The month came and went and he didn't have, hadn't even looked and lied about looking. Instead of tossing him out, we stopped all cash (regardless if he promised to pay it back) and took the car. Now he only gets it for a job interview that is too far away to walk. Even if he has some money of his own for gas, no car. It's now been another month. No job. We sat him down and told him if he doesn't have one by October 1, he will have nothing but a roof over his head from us. Sure he can eat, but we have always bought things for him that we would not eat because he's always been so picky. That ends. He's already railing the unfairness. That's an exaggeration, but it's clear he already thinks he won't meet the deadline. So then I guess we'll have to come up with a more solid plan with another deadline. I hope we don't actually <em>have</em> to kick him out. Because the way it's going, it would be 1) winter and 2) he has no one else to go to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 633593, member: 17309"] Yes, following through is hard. Much harder than knowing what to do. It's why we take such baby steps with our son. We told him to have a job in a month. The month came and went and he didn't have, hadn't even looked and lied about looking. Instead of tossing him out, we stopped all cash (regardless if he promised to pay it back) and took the car. Now he only gets it for a job interview that is too far away to walk. Even if he has some money of his own for gas, no car. It's now been another month. No job. We sat him down and told him if he doesn't have one by October 1, he will have nothing but a roof over his head from us. Sure he can eat, but we have always bought things for him that we would not eat because he's always been so picky. That ends. He's already railing the unfairness. That's an exaggeration, but it's clear he already thinks he won't meet the deadline. So then I guess we'll have to come up with a more solid plan with another deadline. I hope we don't actually [I]have[/I] to kick him out. Because the way it's going, it would be 1) winter and 2) he has no one else to go to. [/QUOTE]
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