Can teach it and live it every day when young, but when adult, it’s their choices. Parents need to repeat it’s their choices. So love but don’t enable. |
| Buy them a new pair of shoes. |
Time for all the nasty comments, I guess. Hopefully, OP is no longer reading. If she is, I want to commend her for her openness and response of gratitude to the many good suggestions that came her way. OP if you are here, ignore the ugly remarks. |
Nothing is nasty about my response. Grow up! It is the reality of life. Parents should parent little kids, not 30 year old adults. |
| The weight sounds like an excuse and the real issue is not wanting to ride the bus. Could you offer to subsidize housing closer to work or near a rail line? The happier they are, the easier it would be to lose weight, if that’s what they want. |
| That’s a want not a need. I don’t fund my 30 year old children’s wants. That’s what their job is for. (We paid for college and their first car.) |
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I think the real issue is that your 30 yr old adult child is asking you for money, especially for something so trivial. Are they disabled?
I have two adult children and never in a million years would they ask me for money for a uber anywhere. In fact they like to buy me dinner and pick up costs for things like uber or a hotel bill. None of us have a lot of money but I didn't raise my kids to be sucking money out of parents well into their adulthood. |