Guide to parenting adult children

[Kiki105]

I could moan all day long on this forum about my lazy, disrespectful, ungrateful DD and DS (20 and 22 respectively) who still live at home, but what I really need is a good advice book on how to parent adult children. Any recommendations gratefully received.

You have house rules they have to stick to. If they don’t, They. Have. To. Leave. And that’s something you have to stick to. It’s your house, they are adults now - you need to rethink the dynamic of the relationship, it’s not like they are kids any more, stop treating them as such. You are actually not helping them for the future by letting them stay in your home, disrespecting you and your rules, etc. They shape up or ship out, it really is that simple.

Honesty no advice because I think ‘lazy, disrespectful and ungrateful’ means that something was missed in their upbringing a long time ago.