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When your kids do everything right but do not socialize is it still a big issue?
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<blockquote data-quote="nlj" data-source="post: 670244" data-attributes="member: 17650"><p>I don't think it matters so much what they're doing, alone or socially, as long as they're doing it themselves, funding their own lifestyles, taking responsibility, making their own choices, living independently.</p><p></p><p>Hubby and I disagree big-time about the relative maturity of our respective sons:</p><p></p><p>My son went to university and didn't come home again after he graduated with a good degree. He's lived rough, on the streets, has been involved with various environmental activist groups, currently living off grid outside society with no money. He's broken my heart in the past but now I accept his life. It's his choice. Totally non-conformist.</p><p></p><p>My step-son is a similar age. Scraped through university allowing his studies to interfere with his social life only minimally. Got a useless degree. Went back home to live with his mother who still does his washing etc, still there. Working. Socialising. Conforming to a certain extent.</p><p></p><p>Who's more grown up? (and who's more boring?)</p><p></p><p>I say my step-son should grow up, move out, stop living like a little boy, get in the real world.</p><p></p><p>Hubby says my son should grow up, get a job, conform to society, get in the real world.</p><p></p><p>Who is correct?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlj, post: 670244, member: 17650"] I don't think it matters so much what they're doing, alone or socially, as long as they're doing it themselves, funding their own lifestyles, taking responsibility, making their own choices, living independently. Hubby and I disagree big-time about the relative maturity of our respective sons: My son went to university and didn't come home again after he graduated with a good degree. He's lived rough, on the streets, has been involved with various environmental activist groups, currently living off grid outside society with no money. He's broken my heart in the past but now I accept his life. It's his choice. Totally non-conformist. My step-son is a similar age. Scraped through university allowing his studies to interfere with his social life only minimally. Got a useless degree. Went back home to live with his mother who still does his washing etc, still there. Working. Socialising. Conforming to a certain extent. Who's more grown up? (and who's more boring?) I say my step-son should grow up, move out, stop living like a little boy, get in the real world. Hubby says my son should grow up, get a job, conform to society, get in the real world. Who is correct? [/QUOTE]
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