*** Quoting Desiree Louvre to Raymond Martin dated 03-13-97 ***
>  -=> 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
Well how about sending him to JobCore ...they will give him a place to 
stay and an education...while he is in school he will also earn money...
I would love to talk to him..
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