-=> While eating Chocolate, Desiree had this to say: <=-
 >
 > Any suggestions... other than kicking out the 18 year old. He's
 > planning
 > on moving out with his girlfriend sometime in April (if the
 > relationship
 > lasts that long), but in the meantime, he will still be here throwing
 > his
 > weight around.
 RM> Well what you need to do is lay down the law...does he use one of your
 RM> cars...take the keys away if he does not change his
No. We only have one... and it is a company vehicle, and since David isn't
all that responsible in the first place his father has not bothered to
teach him how to drive... and would never give him the car keys.
 RM> ways...try to get help from a counciler...and when it comes
 RM> down to it let him know that if he does not change his ways
 RM> soon he will have to leave...that way you are not kicking
Done this... he got his own room, etc... but he seems to think his rights
supercede everyone else's.
 RM> him out he will do it him self because of the way he is
 RM> acting...does he have a job?
This has been a big problem... he refuses to get one, and how he will live
if/when he and his girlfriend move out together will be interesting! I
suspect he will get a crash course in life/responsibility. Quite frankly
it will look good on him. If he *was* working he would be home even less
than he already is. When he was 16 he worked with his father making (sit
down for this one) $15/hour!!! A month later he lost the job. It wasn't
that it was too difficult (peeling vinyl off walls and general cleanup...
vaccuming and sweeping and such) he was just too comfortable because his
father and the boss are friends (sort of) too.  His father has stopped
giving him allowance because he refuses to do any chore (not like he
*should* get allowance for cleaning his room and picking up after him-
self). Anything we ask him to do he expects money for. But yet he won't
get even a part time job! And he is of the opinion that without grade 12
he can walk into a $10/hour job... like his father did, but that was
almost 30 years ago.
I'm stumped.
Desiree
... Madness takes its toll - please have exact change
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