How do you discipline or punish your 18 YO?

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Anonymous wrote:Take phone or car away for x amount of days.


at 18?????

Ridiculous. He shovels when he gets home. Case closed.


Ridiculous, how?

18 is a teen child.


18 is not a child. 18 is an adult who can sign legal contracts, be drafted, and vote. You treating him like a 10 year old doesn't change that.


What they are legally and emotionally are not one and the same.
We don’t just give up on them when they’re 18. They’re part of a family and should help out.
I would make him do it after school if it still needs doing.


I didn't say he shouldn't help you FFS. Everyone who lives in the household should help out. I specifically said several times he should do it after school. However, if you're still taking his phone away as punishment at 18, you've completely failed as a parent. That's who I was responding to.


It isn’t. Just cause my kid is magically an “adult”, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking their phone away.


Well I never said you're not a shitty parent.


Well, then all DCUM parents might be shitty parents, because their so involved in their 18 year olds college application process.


There is a difference in providing guidance and advice and treating your 18 year old like a 10 year old by taking his phone away.


But you’ll take your 17 year olds phone away? Taking a phone away isn’t treating them like a 10 year old, it’s treating them like the teen child, that they are. The phone isn’t payed by them either.


Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I would take it away from a 17 year old either. Just face the fact that you've been a shitty, ineffective parent if you are resorting to this tactic at 17 or 18. They are ADULTS!!!! Start treating them like adults.


Okay, atleast your consistent right. But no, 17 and 18 year olds are literal children, not adults. My god.


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I don't know how many times I need to say this. 18 year olds are adults. If he broke the law, he would be treated as an adult in the legal system because that's what he is. But sure, mommy, take his phone away. That will teach him.


The law is BS. Do you think everything about the law is 100% correct 100% of the time?


What difference does that make? My opinion of the law does not change it one iota.



If the law is your only justification as to why teenage high school children are adults, that should speak for itself.


It's not my justification. It's a fact. Again, you seem to be struggling with basic facts.

I also said several times that parenting your 18 year old adult the same way you parent your 10 year old is completely ridiculous and ineffective, and if you're still using the same tactics at 18 that you did at 10 you failed. A logical person knows this already.


Fact based off of what? From where? I really feel sorry for your children. Your being contradictory right now by saying that you need to parent your 18 year old adult. It isn’t ineffective to take your teen child’s phone way, it works best.


I can't decide if you're really this dumb or just pretending to be. 18 year olds are adults in the eyes of the law. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Please show me where I said you don't need to parent them at all. My mother still parents me from a different continent at almost 48 years old. She doesn't punish me by taking my phone away, which is what you're trying to do. Just idiotic and purposefully obtuse.


Adults do not need parenting.

Are 18 year olds and almost 48 years olds the same?


You're an idiot.


You’re more of an idiot and emotionally stunted and immature to think that you as an almost 48 year old are the same as a teenage high school little child.


That is not what I said. But it's not surprising that someone who can't grasp that 18 year olds are legally adutls also can't grasp something else.


You continue to dodge the real question. We’re not talking about legality.


You're not because you can't grasp that your 18 year old is an adult. The rest of us are able to grasp basic facts.


You haven’t shown me any evidence.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_age


Okay. It seems like the term “adult” is used incorrectly in society. It shouldn’t be used as a marker for when you are given more rights in society. That does not mean that person is an actual adult, it’s old fashioned, arbitrary, and needs to change. Science agrees with me. An adult is a fully mature and grown person, not someone who can do xxx due to some person in history deciding that’s old enough. It might’ve been old enough then, but not now in 2026. And teenagers were always children anyway, now and 500 years ago. Law means nothing. I’m surprised my the amount of people who truly think children can be adults. How sad and awful for these children to be raised by people like this.


Who gets to decide when they are adults?


Society does, but MODERN society.


Exactly. We have. The law says 18. That's how society decides.


No, modern society hasn’t decided that. What? 2020s and beyond is nowhere near the same as 1960s or 1970s.

And why exactly is 18 the chosen age and not 17 or 19, if the law is so correct and not arbitrary?


How do you not understand that the law is 18? How am I still having to repeat this pages later? It's lunacy.


Again, why is the law correct? You keep doing the same thing, avoiding answering questions, because you know that you’re wrong. You seem demented.


Coming from a person who can't even acknowledge a basic fact. It doesn't matter if the law is correct. It is the law. If you don't like it, it makes not difference. You still have to obey it. If you don't like it, you can try to change it. BE sure you present all that "evidence" you claim to have yet haven't presented in any of your idiotic rantings and name calling.


Your being contradictory again. You can’t answer whether is law is correct about this, and think others should change it, that proves that you’re claim of 18 being an adult is not a fact. If the law is incorrect, it’s still a fact to you and right, what? I’m not going to waste any of my time presenting you with any evidence of something that’s basic knowledge. You’re almost 48 year old brain still would not understand any of it.


Right, you're not going to waste time because you have nothing to support your idiocy. The law is the law. Your opinion and mine are irrelevant. Your 18 year is a legal adult.


18 is not an adult. Just stop. You can’t give any proof and continue to spread lies.


Tell that to the government. Bet you they'll make you understand real quick that yes, in fact, 18 year olds are adults.


I don’t care what the government thinks. Stop with that.


The government doesn't give a shit what you care about.


Actually, the government does care. There’s this thing called democracy.


Correct. So petition the government and change the law. Until then, 18 year olds are adults. You don’t get to ignore the laws you don’t like.


So 18 year olds aren’t adults, cause the law could be changed tomorrow. Your idea of 18 being an adult is baseless and Inaccurate.


I'm just going to keep saying it until you finally get it, 18 year olds are legal adults.

You can repeat “18 is a legal adult” as many times as you want. Repetition isn’t an argument. I can repeat that one 48 yea old woman is too dumb to understand something so simple.
Yes, 18 is the age of majority under U.S. law. That’s a legal classification. It exists because governments need a bright-line rule. (You can literally verify it through Cornell Law School if we’re still pretending this is groundbreaking information.)
But here’s the part you keep dodging:
A legal threshold is not proof of full adulthood. It’s an administrative cutoff. Society had to pick a number. They picked 18. They could have picked 17 or 19. The existence of a line doesn’t mean the line reflects biological completion.
If legality alone defines adulthood, then adulthood is whatever lawmakers say it is — which means it’s arbitrary by definition.
You’re arguing “the law says so.”
I’m arguing “development doesn’t instantly complete at midnight on someone’s 18th birthday.”
If your entire position rests on repeating the word “legal,” that’s not strength — that’s stupidity, something you seem to excel at.


You can scream and throw a fit all you want. Calling me names doesn’t bolster your idiotic argument. All I have ever said is that 18 year olds are legal adults. It is a fact that you cannot dispute. You lose legal ability to control your child and punish him at 18. The only reason you’re able to is because he lets you. Bye now.


You spent this entire time saying “18 is an adult”. Okay if the law changed and 16 year olds were considered adults tomorrow, would that be true?


Of course it would, in the eyes of the law.
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Only someone extremely dumb takes the time to write something as stupid as this.


Only a pedo disagrees with me.


18 year olds are adults.


No, they aren’t. You must be mentally 7, to believe that teenagers who raise their hand in class to go to the bathroom can be adults.


18 year olds who can sign legal contracts, vote, get married without your permission are adults. Your hissy fits mean nothing in the eyes of the law.


If the law changed tomorrow and 14 year olds were considered adults, would that be okay?


If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a bicycle?


Isn’t adult a legal term? It can be changed right to be any age?


It sure is. It gives the 18 year old complete ability to make decisions for himself. Something he will probably utilize as soon as his able considering how crazy the poster who is arguing with me is. The fact that she disagrees with the law, or me, or even her adult child one day is completely irrelevant. It’s the law that I keep referring to that gives him that ability.


Okay so if adult is a legal term and it was changed tomorrow to 16 to 20, would those ages be the magical new number as to what’s considered and adult? Yes or no.
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at 18?????

Ridiculous. He shovels when he gets home. Case closed.


Ridiculous, how?

18 is a teen child.


18 is not a child. 18 is an adult who can sign legal contracts, be drafted, and vote. You treating him like a 10 year old doesn't change that.


What they are legally and emotionally are not one and the same.
We don’t just give up on them when they’re 18. They’re part of a family and should help out.
I would make him do it after school if it still needs doing.


I didn't say he shouldn't help you FFS. Everyone who lives in the household should help out. I specifically said several times he should do it after school. However, if you're still taking his phone away as punishment at 18, you've completely failed as a parent. That's who I was responding to.


It isn’t. Just cause my kid is magically an “adult”, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking their phone away.


Well I never said you're not a shitty parent.


Well, then all DCUM parents might be shitty parents, because their so involved in their 18 year olds college application process.


There is a difference in providing guidance and advice and treating your 18 year old like a 10 year old by taking his phone away.


But you’ll take your 17 year olds phone away? Taking a phone away isn’t treating them like a 10 year old, it’s treating them like the teen child, that they are. The phone isn’t payed by them either.


Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I would take it away from a 17 year old either. Just face the fact that you've been a shitty, ineffective parent if you are resorting to this tactic at 17 or 18. They are ADULTS!!!! Start treating them like adults.


Okay, atleast your consistent right. But no, 17 and 18 year olds are literal children, not adults. My god.


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I don't know how many times I need to say this. 18 year olds are adults. If he broke the law, he would be treated as an adult in the legal system because that's what he is. But sure, mommy, take his phone away. That will teach him.


The law is BS. Do you think everything about the law is 100% correct 100% of the time?


What difference does that make? My opinion of the law does not change it one iota.



If the law is your only justification as to why teenage high school children are adults, that should speak for itself.


It's not my justification. It's a fact. Again, you seem to be struggling with basic facts.

I also said several times that parenting your 18 year old adult the same way you parent your 10 year old is completely ridiculous and ineffective, and if you're still using the same tactics at 18 that you did at 10 you failed. A logical person knows this already.


Fact based off of what? From where? I really feel sorry for your children. Your being contradictory right now by saying that you need to parent your 18 year old adult. It isn’t ineffective to take your teen child’s phone way, it works best.


I can't decide if you're really this dumb or just pretending to be. 18 year olds are adults in the eyes of the law. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Please show me where I said you don't need to parent them at all. My mother still parents me from a different continent at almost 48 years old. She doesn't punish me by taking my phone away, which is what you're trying to do. Just idiotic and purposefully obtuse.


Adults do not need parenting.

Are 18 year olds and almost 48 years olds the same?


You're an idiot.


You’re more of an idiot and emotionally stunted and immature to think that you as an almost 48 year old are the same as a teenage high school little child.


That is not what I said. But it's not surprising that someone who can't grasp that 18 year olds are legally adutls also can't grasp something else.


You continue to dodge the real question. We’re not talking about legality.


You're not because you can't grasp that your 18 year old is an adult. The rest of us are able to grasp basic facts.


You haven’t shown me any evidence.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_age


Okay. It seems like the term “adult” is used incorrectly in society. It shouldn’t be used as a marker for when you are given more rights in society. That does not mean that person is an actual adult, it’s old fashioned, arbitrary, and needs to change. Science agrees with me. An adult is a fully mature and grown person, not someone who can do xxx due to some person in history deciding that’s old enough. It might’ve been old enough then, but not now in 2026. And teenagers were always children anyway, now and 500 years ago. Law means nothing. I’m surprised my the amount of people who truly think children can be adults. How sad and awful for these children to be raised by people like this.


Who gets to decide when they are adults?


Society does, but MODERN society.


Exactly. We have. The law says 18. That's how society decides.


No, modern society hasn’t decided that. What? 2020s and beyond is nowhere near the same as 1960s or 1970s.

And why exactly is 18 the chosen age and not 17 or 19, if the law is so correct and not arbitrary?


How do you not understand that the law is 18? How am I still having to repeat this pages later? It's lunacy.


Again, why is the law correct? You keep doing the same thing, avoiding answering questions, because you know that you’re wrong. You seem demented.


Coming from a person who can't even acknowledge a basic fact. It doesn't matter if the law is correct. It is the law. If you don't like it, it makes not difference. You still have to obey it. If you don't like it, you can try to change it. BE sure you present all that "evidence" you claim to have yet haven't presented in any of your idiotic rantings and name calling.


Your being contradictory again. You can’t answer whether is law is correct about this, and think others should change it, that proves that you’re claim of 18 being an adult is not a fact. If the law is incorrect, it’s still a fact to you and right, what? I’m not going to waste any of my time presenting you with any evidence of something that’s basic knowledge. You’re almost 48 year old brain still would not understand any of it.


Right, you're not going to waste time because you have nothing to support your idiocy. The law is the law. Your opinion and mine are irrelevant. Your 18 year is a legal adult.


18 is not an adult. Just stop. You can’t give any proof and continue to spread lies.


Tell that to the government. Bet you they'll make you understand real quick that yes, in fact, 18 year olds are adults.


I don’t care what the government thinks. Stop with that.


The government doesn't give a shit what you care about.


Actually, the government does care. There’s this thing called democracy.


Correct. So petition the government and change the law. Until then, 18 year olds are adults. You don’t get to ignore the laws you don’t like.


So 18 year olds aren’t adults, cause the law could be changed tomorrow. Your idea of 18 being an adult is baseless and Inaccurate.


I'm just going to keep saying it until you finally get it, 18 year olds are legal adults.

You can repeat “18 is a legal adult” as many times as you want. Repetition isn’t an argument. I can repeat that one 48 yea old woman is too dumb to understand something so simple.
Yes, 18 is the age of majority under U.S. law. That’s a legal classification. It exists because governments need a bright-line rule. (You can literally verify it through Cornell Law School if we’re still pretending this is groundbreaking information.)
But here’s the part you keep dodging:
A legal threshold is not proof of full adulthood. It’s an administrative cutoff. Society had to pick a number. They picked 18. They could have picked 17 or 19. The existence of a line doesn’t mean the line reflects biological completion.
If legality alone defines adulthood, then adulthood is whatever lawmakers say it is — which means it’s arbitrary by definition.
You’re arguing “the law says so.”
I’m arguing “development doesn’t instantly complete at midnight on someone’s 18th birthday.”
If your entire position rests on repeating the word “legal,” that’s not strength — that’s stupidity, something you seem to excel at.


You can scream and throw a fit all you want. Calling me names doesn’t bolster your idiotic argument. All I have ever said is that 18 year olds are legal adults. It is a fact that you cannot dispute. You lose legal ability to control your child and punish him at 18. The only reason you’re able to is because he lets you. Bye now.


You spent this entire time saying “18 is an adult”. Okay if the law changed and 16 year olds were considered adults tomorrow, would that be true?


Of course it would, in the eyes of the law. [/quote
This proves that 18 isn’t an adult. Thank you.
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at 18?????

Ridiculous. He shovels when he gets home. Case closed.


Ridiculous, how?

18 is a teen child.


18 is not a child. 18 is an adult who can sign legal contracts, be drafted, and vote. You treating him like a 10 year old doesn't change that.


What they are legally and emotionally are not one and the same.
We don’t just give up on them when they’re 18. They’re part of a family and should help out.
I would make him do it after school if it still needs doing.


I didn't say he shouldn't help you FFS. Everyone who lives in the household should help out. I specifically said several times he should do it after school. However, if you're still taking his phone away as punishment at 18, you've completely failed as a parent. That's who I was responding to.


It isn’t. Just cause my kid is magically an “adult”, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking their phone away.


Well I never said you're not a shitty parent.


Well, then all DCUM parents might be shitty parents, because their so involved in their 18 year olds college application process.


There is a difference in providing guidance and advice and treating your 18 year old like a 10 year old by taking his phone away.


But you’ll take your 17 year olds phone away? Taking a phone away isn’t treating them like a 10 year old, it’s treating them like the teen child, that they are. The phone isn’t payed by them either.


Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I would take it away from a 17 year old either. Just face the fact that you've been a shitty, ineffective parent if you are resorting to this tactic at 17 or 18. They are ADULTS!!!! Start treating them like adults.


Okay, atleast your consistent right. But no, 17 and 18 year olds are literal children, not adults. My god.


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I don't know how many times I need to say this. 18 year olds are adults. If he broke the law, he would be treated as an adult in the legal system because that's what he is. But sure, mommy, take his phone away. That will teach him.


The law is BS. Do you think everything about the law is 100% correct 100% of the time?


What difference does that make? My opinion of the law does not change it one iota.



If the law is your only justification as to why teenage high school children are adults, that should speak for itself.


It's not my justification. It's a fact. Again, you seem to be struggling with basic facts.

I also said several times that parenting your 18 year old adult the same way you parent your 10 year old is completely ridiculous and ineffective, and if you're still using the same tactics at 18 that you did at 10 you failed. A logical person knows this already.


Fact based off of what? From where? I really feel sorry for your children. Your being contradictory right now by saying that you need to parent your 18 year old adult. It isn’t ineffective to take your teen child’s phone way, it works best.


I can't decide if you're really this dumb or just pretending to be. 18 year olds are adults in the eyes of the law. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Please show me where I said you don't need to parent them at all. My mother still parents me from a different continent at almost 48 years old. She doesn't punish me by taking my phone away, which is what you're trying to do. Just idiotic and purposefully obtuse.


Adults do not need parenting.

Are 18 year olds and almost 48 years olds the same?


You're an idiot.


You’re more of an idiot and emotionally stunted and immature to think that you as an almost 48 year old are the same as a teenage high school little child.


That is not what I said. But it's not surprising that someone who can't grasp that 18 year olds are legally adutls also can't grasp something else.


You continue to dodge the real question. We’re not talking about legality.


You're not because you can't grasp that your 18 year old is an adult. The rest of us are able to grasp basic facts.


You haven’t shown me any evidence.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_age


Okay. It seems like the term “adult” is used incorrectly in society. It shouldn’t be used as a marker for when you are given more rights in society. That does not mean that person is an actual adult, it’s old fashioned, arbitrary, and needs to change. Science agrees with me. An adult is a fully mature and grown person, not someone who can do xxx due to some person in history deciding that’s old enough. It might’ve been old enough then, but not now in 2026. And teenagers were always children anyway, now and 500 years ago. Law means nothing. I’m surprised my the amount of people who truly think children can be adults. How sad and awful for these children to be raised by people like this.


Who gets to decide when they are adults?


Society does, but MODERN society.


Exactly. We have. The law says 18. That's how society decides.


No, modern society hasn’t decided that. What? 2020s and beyond is nowhere near the same as 1960s or 1970s.

And why exactly is 18 the chosen age and not 17 or 19, if the law is so correct and not arbitrary?


How do you not understand that the law is 18? How am I still having to repeat this pages later? It's lunacy.


Again, why is the law correct? You keep doing the same thing, avoiding answering questions, because you know that you’re wrong. You seem demented.


Coming from a person who can't even acknowledge a basic fact. It doesn't matter if the law is correct. It is the law. If you don't like it, it makes not difference. You still have to obey it. If you don't like it, you can try to change it. BE sure you present all that "evidence" you claim to have yet haven't presented in any of your idiotic rantings and name calling.


Your being contradictory again. You can’t answer whether is law is correct about this, and think others should change it, that proves that you’re claim of 18 being an adult is not a fact. If the law is incorrect, it’s still a fact to you and right, what? I’m not going to waste any of my time presenting you with any evidence of something that’s basic knowledge. You’re almost 48 year old brain still would not understand any of it.


Right, you're not going to waste time because you have nothing to support your idiocy. The law is the law. Your opinion and mine are irrelevant. Your 18 year is a legal adult.


18 is not an adult. Just stop. You can’t give any proof and continue to spread lies.


Tell that to the government. Bet you they'll make you understand real quick that yes, in fact, 18 year olds are adults.


I don’t care what the government thinks. Stop with that.


The government doesn't give a shit what you care about.


Actually, the government does care. There’s this thing called democracy.


Correct. So petition the government and change the law. Until then, 18 year olds are adults. You don’t get to ignore the laws you don’t like.


So 18 year olds aren’t adults, cause the law could be changed tomorrow. Your idea of 18 being an adult is baseless and Inaccurate.


I'm just going to keep saying it until you finally get it, 18 year olds are legal adults.

You can repeat “18 is a legal adult” as many times as you want. Repetition isn’t an argument. I can repeat that one 48 yea old woman is too dumb to understand something so simple.
Yes, 18 is the age of majority under U.S. law. That’s a legal classification. It exists because governments need a bright-line rule. (You can literally verify it through Cornell Law School if we’re still pretending this is groundbreaking information.)
But here’s the part you keep dodging:
A legal threshold is not proof of full adulthood. It’s an administrative cutoff. Society had to pick a number. They picked 18. They could have picked 17 or 19. The existence of a line doesn’t mean the line reflects biological completion.
If legality alone defines adulthood, then adulthood is whatever lawmakers say it is — which means it’s arbitrary by definition.
You’re arguing “the law says so.”
I’m arguing “development doesn’t instantly complete at midnight on someone’s 18th birthday.”
If your entire position rests on repeating the word “legal,” that’s not strength — that’s stupidity, something you seem to excel at.


You can scream and throw a fit all you want. Calling me names doesn’t bolster your idiotic argument. All I have ever said is that 18 year olds are legal adults. It is a fact that you cannot dispute. You lose legal ability to control your child and punish him at 18. The only reason you’re able to is because he lets you. Bye now.


You spent this entire time saying “18 is an adult”. Okay if the law changed and 16 year olds were considered adults tomorrow, would that be true?


Of course it would, in the eyes of the law. [/quote
This proves that 18 isn’t an adult. Thank you.


I have never encountered a more obtuse person on this forum. 18 year olds are legal adults. Maybe repetition will work for you, sort of like multiplication tables.
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at 18?????

Ridiculous. He shovels when he gets home. Case closed.


Ridiculous, how?

18 is a teen child.


18 is not a child. 18 is an adult who can sign legal contracts, be drafted, and vote. You treating him like a 10 year old doesn't change that.


What they are legally and emotionally are not one and the same.
We don’t just give up on them when they’re 18. They’re part of a family and should help out.
I would make him do it after school if it still needs doing.


I didn't say he shouldn't help you FFS. Everyone who lives in the household should help out. I specifically said several times he should do it after school. However, if you're still taking his phone away as punishment at 18, you've completely failed as a parent. That's who I was responding to.


It isn’t. Just cause my kid is magically an “adult”, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking their phone away.


Well I never said you're not a shitty parent.


Well, then all DCUM parents might be shitty parents, because their so involved in their 18 year olds college application process.


There is a difference in providing guidance and advice and treating your 18 year old like a 10 year old by taking his phone away.


But you’ll take your 17 year olds phone away? Taking a phone away isn’t treating them like a 10 year old, it’s treating them like the teen child, that they are. The phone isn’t payed by them either.


Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I would take it away from a 17 year old either. Just face the fact that you've been a shitty, ineffective parent if you are resorting to this tactic at 17 or 18. They are ADULTS!!!! Start treating them like adults.


Okay, atleast your consistent right. But no, 17 and 18 year olds are literal children, not adults. My god.


"you're"

I don't know how many times I need to say this. 18 year olds are adults. If he broke the law, he would be treated as an adult in the legal system because that's what he is. But sure, mommy, take his phone away. That will teach him.


The law is BS. Do you think everything about the law is 100% correct 100% of the time?


What difference does that make? My opinion of the law does not change it one iota.



If the law is your only justification as to why teenage high school children are adults, that should speak for itself.


It's not my justification. It's a fact. Again, you seem to be struggling with basic facts.

I also said several times that parenting your 18 year old adult the same way you parent your 10 year old is completely ridiculous and ineffective, and if you're still using the same tactics at 18 that you did at 10 you failed. A logical person knows this already.


Fact based off of what? From where? I really feel sorry for your children. Your being contradictory right now by saying that you need to parent your 18 year old adult. It isn’t ineffective to take your teen child’s phone way, it works best.


I can't decide if you're really this dumb or just pretending to be. 18 year olds are adults in the eyes of the law. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Please show me where I said you don't need to parent them at all. My mother still parents me from a different continent at almost 48 years old. She doesn't punish me by taking my phone away, which is what you're trying to do. Just idiotic and purposefully obtuse.


Adults do not need parenting.

Are 18 year olds and almost 48 years olds the same?


You're an idiot.


You’re more of an idiot and emotionally stunted and immature to think that you as an almost 48 year old are the same as a teenage high school little child.


That is not what I said. But it's not surprising that someone who can't grasp that 18 year olds are legally adutls also can't grasp something else.


You continue to dodge the real question. We’re not talking about legality.


You're not because you can't grasp that your 18 year old is an adult. The rest of us are able to grasp basic facts.


You haven’t shown me any evidence.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_age


Okay. It seems like the term “adult” is used incorrectly in society. It shouldn’t be used as a marker for when you are given more rights in society. That does not mean that person is an actual adult, it’s old fashioned, arbitrary, and needs to change. Science agrees with me. An adult is a fully mature and grown person, not someone who can do xxx due to some person in history deciding that’s old enough. It might’ve been old enough then, but not now in 2026. And teenagers were always children anyway, now and 500 years ago. Law means nothing. I’m surprised my the amount of people who truly think children can be adults. How sad and awful for these children to be raised by people like this.


Who gets to decide when they are adults?


Society does, but MODERN society.


Exactly. We have. The law says 18. That's how society decides.


No, modern society hasn’t decided that. What? 2020s and beyond is nowhere near the same as 1960s or 1970s.

And why exactly is 18 the chosen age and not 17 or 19, if the law is so correct and not arbitrary?


How do you not understand that the law is 18? How am I still having to repeat this pages later? It's lunacy.


Again, why is the law correct? You keep doing the same thing, avoiding answering questions, because you know that you’re wrong. You seem demented.


Coming from a person who can't even acknowledge a basic fact. It doesn't matter if the law is correct. It is the law. If you don't like it, it makes not difference. You still have to obey it. If you don't like it, you can try to change it. BE sure you present all that "evidence" you claim to have yet haven't presented in any of your idiotic rantings and name calling.


Your being contradictory again. You can’t answer whether is law is correct about this, and think others should change it, that proves that you’re claim of 18 being an adult is not a fact. If the law is incorrect, it’s still a fact to you and right, what? I’m not going to waste any of my time presenting you with any evidence of something that’s basic knowledge. You’re almost 48 year old brain still would not understand any of it.


Right, you're not going to waste time because you have nothing to support your idiocy. The law is the law. Your opinion and mine are irrelevant. Your 18 year is a legal adult.


18 is not an adult. Just stop. You can’t give any proof and continue to spread lies.


Tell that to the government. Bet you they'll make you understand real quick that yes, in fact, 18 year olds are adults.


I don’t care what the government thinks. Stop with that.


The government doesn't give a shit what you care about.


Actually, the government does care. There’s this thing called democracy.


Correct. So petition the government and change the law. Until then, 18 year olds are adults. You don’t get to ignore the laws you don’t like.


So 18 year olds aren’t adults, cause the law could be changed tomorrow. Your idea of 18 being an adult is baseless and Inaccurate.


I'm just going to keep saying it until you finally get it, 18 year olds are legal adults.

You can repeat “18 is a legal adult” as many times as you want. Repetition isn’t an argument. I can repeat that one 48 yea old woman is too dumb to understand something so simple.
Yes, 18 is the age of majority under U.S. law. That’s a legal classification. It exists because governments need a bright-line rule. (You can literally verify it through Cornell Law School if we’re still pretending this is groundbreaking information.)
But here’s the part you keep dodging:
A legal threshold is not proof of full adulthood. It’s an administrative cutoff. Society had to pick a number. They picked 18. They could have picked 17 or 19. The existence of a line doesn’t mean the line reflects biological completion.
If legality alone defines adulthood, then adulthood is whatever lawmakers say it is — which means it’s arbitrary by definition.
You’re arguing “the law says so.”
I’m arguing “development doesn’t instantly complete at midnight on someone’s 18th birthday.”
If your entire position rests on repeating the word “legal,” that’s not strength — that’s stupidity, something you seem to excel at.


You can scream and throw a fit all you want. Calling me names doesn’t bolster your idiotic argument. All I have ever said is that 18 year olds are legal adults. It is a fact that you cannot dispute. You lose legal ability to control your child and punish him at 18. The only reason you’re able to is because he lets you. Bye now.


You spent this entire time saying “18 is an adult”. Okay if the law changed and 16 year olds were considered adults tomorrow, would that be true?


Of course it would, in the eyes of the law. [/quote
This proves that 18 isn’t an adult. Thank you.


I have never encountered a more obtuse person on this forum. 18 year olds are legal adults. Maybe repetition will work for you, sort of like multiplication tables.


18 year olds are not adults.
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at 18?????

Ridiculous. He shovels when he gets home. Case closed.


Ridiculous, how?

18 is a teen child.


18 is not a child. 18 is an adult who can sign legal contracts, be drafted, and vote. You treating him like a 10 year old doesn't change that.


What they are legally and emotionally are not one and the same.
We don’t just give up on them when they’re 18. They’re part of a family and should help out.
I would make him do it after school if it still needs doing.


I didn't say he shouldn't help you FFS. Everyone who lives in the household should help out. I specifically said several times he should do it after school. However, if you're still taking his phone away as punishment at 18, you've completely failed as a parent. That's who I was responding to.


It isn’t. Just cause my kid is magically an “adult”, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking their phone away.


Well I never said you're not a shitty parent.


Well, then all DCUM parents might be shitty parents, because their so involved in their 18 year olds college application process.


There is a difference in providing guidance and advice and treating your 18 year old like a 10 year old by taking his phone away.


But you’ll take your 17 year olds phone away? Taking a phone away isn’t treating them like a 10 year old, it’s treating them like the teen child, that they are. The phone isn’t payed by them either.


Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I would take it away from a 17 year old either. Just face the fact that you've been a shitty, ineffective parent if you are resorting to this tactic at 17 or 18. They are ADULTS!!!! Start treating them like adults.


Okay, atleast your consistent right. But no, 17 and 18 year olds are literal children, not adults. My god.


"you're"

I don't know how many times I need to say this. 18 year olds are adults. If he broke the law, he would be treated as an adult in the legal system because that's what he is. But sure, mommy, take his phone away. That will teach him.


The law is BS. Do you think everything about the law is 100% correct 100% of the time?


What difference does that make? My opinion of the law does not change it one iota.



If the law is your only justification as to why teenage high school children are adults, that should speak for itself.


It's not my justification. It's a fact. Again, you seem to be struggling with basic facts.

I also said several times that parenting your 18 year old adult the same way you parent your 10 year old is completely ridiculous and ineffective, and if you're still using the same tactics at 18 that you did at 10 you failed. A logical person knows this already.


Fact based off of what? From where? I really feel sorry for your children. Your being contradictory right now by saying that you need to parent your 18 year old adult. It isn’t ineffective to take your teen child’s phone way, it works best.


I can't decide if you're really this dumb or just pretending to be. 18 year olds are adults in the eyes of the law. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Please show me where I said you don't need to parent them at all. My mother still parents me from a different continent at almost 48 years old. She doesn't punish me by taking my phone away, which is what you're trying to do. Just idiotic and purposefully obtuse.


Adults do not need parenting.

Are 18 year olds and almost 48 years olds the same?


You're an idiot.


You’re more of an idiot and emotionally stunted and immature to think that you as an almost 48 year old are the same as a teenage high school little child.


That is not what I said. But it's not surprising that someone who can't grasp that 18 year olds are legally adutls also can't grasp something else.


You continue to dodge the real question. We’re not talking about legality.


You're not because you can't grasp that your 18 year old is an adult. The rest of us are able to grasp basic facts.


You haven’t shown me any evidence.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_age


Okay. It seems like the term “adult” is used incorrectly in society. It shouldn’t be used as a marker for when you are given more rights in society. That does not mean that person is an actual adult, it’s old fashioned, arbitrary, and needs to change. Science agrees with me. An adult is a fully mature and grown person, not someone who can do xxx due to some person in history deciding that’s old enough. It might’ve been old enough then, but not now in 2026. And teenagers were always children anyway, now and 500 years ago. Law means nothing. I’m surprised my the amount of people who truly think children can be adults. How sad and awful for these children to be raised by people like this.


Who gets to decide when they are adults?


Society does, but MODERN society.


Exactly. We have. The law says 18. That's how society decides.


No, modern society hasn’t decided that. What? 2020s and beyond is nowhere near the same as 1960s or 1970s.

And why exactly is 18 the chosen age and not 17 or 19, if the law is so correct and not arbitrary?


How do you not understand that the law is 18? How am I still having to repeat this pages later? It's lunacy.


Again, why is the law correct? You keep doing the same thing, avoiding answering questions, because you know that you’re wrong. You seem demented.


Coming from a person who can't even acknowledge a basic fact. It doesn't matter if the law is correct. It is the law. If you don't like it, it makes not difference. You still have to obey it. If you don't like it, you can try to change it. BE sure you present all that "evidence" you claim to have yet haven't presented in any of your idiotic rantings and name calling.


Your being contradictory again. You can’t answer whether is law is correct about this, and think others should change it, that proves that you’re claim of 18 being an adult is not a fact. If the law is incorrect, it’s still a fact to you and right, what? I’m not going to waste any of my time presenting you with any evidence of something that’s basic knowledge. You’re almost 48 year old brain still would not understand any of it.


Right, you're not going to waste time because you have nothing to support your idiocy. The law is the law. Your opinion and mine are irrelevant. Your 18 year is a legal adult.


18 is not an adult. Just stop. You can’t give any proof and continue to spread lies.


Tell that to the government. Bet you they'll make you understand real quick that yes, in fact, 18 year olds are adults.


I don’t care what the government thinks. Stop with that.


The government doesn't give a shit what you care about.


Actually, the government does care. There’s this thing called democracy.


Correct. So petition the government and change the law. Until then, 18 year olds are adults. You don’t get to ignore the laws you don’t like.


So 18 year olds aren’t adults, cause the law could be changed tomorrow. Your idea of 18 being an adult is baseless and Inaccurate.


I'm just going to keep saying it until you finally get it, 18 year olds are legal adults.

You can repeat “18 is a legal adult” as many times as you want. Repetition isn’t an argument. I can repeat that one 48 yea old woman is too dumb to understand something so simple.
Yes, 18 is the age of majority under U.S. law. That’s a legal classification. It exists because governments need a bright-line rule. (You can literally verify it through Cornell Law School if we’re still pretending this is groundbreaking information.)
But here’s the part you keep dodging:
A legal threshold is not proof of full adulthood. It’s an administrative cutoff. Society had to pick a number. They picked 18. They could have picked 17 or 19. The existence of a line doesn’t mean the line reflects biological completion.
If legality alone defines adulthood, then adulthood is whatever lawmakers say it is — which means it’s arbitrary by definition.
You’re arguing “the law says so.”
I’m arguing “development doesn’t instantly complete at midnight on someone’s 18th birthday.”
If your entire position rests on repeating the word “legal,” that’s not strength — that’s stupidity, something you seem to excel at.


You can scream and throw a fit all you want. Calling me names doesn’t bolster your idiotic argument. All I have ever said is that 18 year olds are legal adults. It is a fact that you cannot dispute. You lose legal ability to control your child and punish him at 18. The only reason you’re able to is because he lets you. Bye now.


You spent this entire time saying “18 is an adult”. Okay if the law changed and 16 year olds were considered adults tomorrow, would that be true?


Of course it would, in the eyes of the law. [/quote
This proves that 18 isn’t an adult. Thank you.


I have never encountered a more obtuse person on this forum. 18 year olds are legal adults. Maybe repetition will work for you, sort of like multiplication tables.


18 year olds are not adults.


The law is what it is, sweet cheeks. 18 years olds are adults.
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at 18?????

Ridiculous. He shovels when he gets home. Case closed.


Ridiculous, how?

18 is a teen child.


18 is not a child. 18 is an adult who can sign legal contracts, be drafted, and vote. You treating him like a 10 year old doesn't change that.


What they are legally and emotionally are not one and the same.
We don’t just give up on them when they’re 18. They’re part of a family and should help out.
I would make him do it after school if it still needs doing.


I didn't say he shouldn't help you FFS. Everyone who lives in the household should help out. I specifically said several times he should do it after school. However, if you're still taking his phone away as punishment at 18, you've completely failed as a parent. That's who I was responding to.


It isn’t. Just cause my kid is magically an “adult”, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking their phone away.


Well I never said you're not a shitty parent.


Well, then all DCUM parents might be shitty parents, because their so involved in their 18 year olds college application process.


There is a difference in providing guidance and advice and treating your 18 year old like a 10 year old by taking his phone away.


But you’ll take your 17 year olds phone away? Taking a phone away isn’t treating them like a 10 year old, it’s treating them like the teen child, that they are. The phone isn’t payed by them either.


Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I would take it away from a 17 year old either. Just face the fact that you've been a shitty, ineffective parent if you are resorting to this tactic at 17 or 18. They are ADULTS!!!! Start treating them like adults.


Okay, atleast your consistent right. But no, 17 and 18 year olds are literal children, not adults. My god.


"you're"

I don't know how many times I need to say this. 18 year olds are adults. If he broke the law, he would be treated as an adult in the legal system because that's what he is. But sure, mommy, take his phone away. That will teach him.


The law is BS. Do you think everything about the law is 100% correct 100% of the time?


What difference does that make? My opinion of the law does not change it one iota.



If the law is your only justification as to why teenage high school children are adults, that should speak for itself.


It's not my justification. It's a fact. Again, you seem to be struggling with basic facts.

I also said several times that parenting your 18 year old adult the same way you parent your 10 year old is completely ridiculous and ineffective, and if you're still using the same tactics at 18 that you did at 10 you failed. A logical person knows this already.


Fact based off of what? From where? I really feel sorry for your children. Your being contradictory right now by saying that you need to parent your 18 year old adult. It isn’t ineffective to take your teen child’s phone way, it works best.


I can't decide if you're really this dumb or just pretending to be. 18 year olds are adults in the eyes of the law. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Please show me where I said you don't need to parent them at all. My mother still parents me from a different continent at almost 48 years old. She doesn't punish me by taking my phone away, which is what you're trying to do. Just idiotic and purposefully obtuse.


Adults do not need parenting.

Are 18 year olds and almost 48 years olds the same?


You're an idiot.


You’re more of an idiot and emotionally stunted and immature to think that you as an almost 48 year old are the same as a teenage high school little child.


That is not what I said. But it's not surprising that someone who can't grasp that 18 year olds are legally adutls also can't grasp something else.


You continue to dodge the real question. We’re not talking about legality.


You're not because you can't grasp that your 18 year old is an adult. The rest of us are able to grasp basic facts.


You haven’t shown me any evidence.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_age


Okay. It seems like the term “adult” is used incorrectly in society. It shouldn’t be used as a marker for when you are given more rights in society. That does not mean that person is an actual adult, it’s old fashioned, arbitrary, and needs to change. Science agrees with me. An adult is a fully mature and grown person, not someone who can do xxx due to some person in history deciding that’s old enough. It might’ve been old enough then, but not now in 2026. And teenagers were always children anyway, now and 500 years ago. Law means nothing. I’m surprised my the amount of people who truly think children can be adults. How sad and awful for these children to be raised by people like this.


Who gets to decide when they are adults?


Society does, but MODERN society.


Exactly. We have. The law says 18. That's how society decides.


No, modern society hasn’t decided that. What? 2020s and beyond is nowhere near the same as 1960s or 1970s.

And why exactly is 18 the chosen age and not 17 or 19, if the law is so correct and not arbitrary?


How do you not understand that the law is 18? How am I still having to repeat this pages later? It's lunacy.


Again, why is the law correct? You keep doing the same thing, avoiding answering questions, because you know that you’re wrong. You seem demented.


Coming from a person who can't even acknowledge a basic fact. It doesn't matter if the law is correct. It is the law. If you don't like it, it makes not difference. You still have to obey it. If you don't like it, you can try to change it. BE sure you present all that "evidence" you claim to have yet haven't presented in any of your idiotic rantings and name calling.


Your being contradictory again. You can’t answer whether is law is correct about this, and think others should change it, that proves that you’re claim of 18 being an adult is not a fact. If the law is incorrect, it’s still a fact to you and right, what? I’m not going to waste any of my time presenting you with any evidence of something that’s basic knowledge. You’re almost 48 year old brain still would not understand any of it.


Right, you're not going to waste time because you have nothing to support your idiocy. The law is the law. Your opinion and mine are irrelevant. Your 18 year is a legal adult.


18 is not an adult. Just stop. You can’t give any proof and continue to spread lies.


Tell that to the government. Bet you they'll make you understand real quick that yes, in fact, 18 year olds are adults.


I don’t care what the government thinks. Stop with that.


The government doesn't give a shit what you care about.


Actually, the government does care. There’s this thing called democracy.


Correct. So petition the government and change the law. Until then, 18 year olds are adults. You don’t get to ignore the laws you don’t like.


So 18 year olds aren’t adults, cause the law could be changed tomorrow. Your idea of 18 being an adult is baseless and Inaccurate.


I'm just going to keep saying it until you finally get it, 18 year olds are legal adults.

You can repeat “18 is a legal adult” as many times as you want. Repetition isn’t an argument. I can repeat that one 48 yea old woman is too dumb to understand something so simple.
Yes, 18 is the age of majority under U.S. law. That’s a legal classification. It exists because governments need a bright-line rule. (You can literally verify it through Cornell Law School if we’re still pretending this is groundbreaking information.)
But here’s the part you keep dodging:
A legal threshold is not proof of full adulthood. It’s an administrative cutoff. Society had to pick a number. They picked 18. They could have picked 17 or 19. The existence of a line doesn’t mean the line reflects biological completion.
If legality alone defines adulthood, then adulthood is whatever lawmakers say it is — which means it’s arbitrary by definition.
You’re arguing “the law says so.”
I’m arguing “development doesn’t instantly complete at midnight on someone’s 18th birthday.”
If your entire position rests on repeating the word “legal,” that’s not strength — that’s stupidity, something you seem to excel at.


You can scream and throw a fit all you want. Calling me names doesn’t bolster your idiotic argument. All I have ever said is that 18 year olds are legal adults. It is a fact that you cannot dispute. You lose legal ability to control your child and punish him at 18. The only reason you’re able to is because he lets you. Bye now.


You spent this entire time saying “18 is an adult”. Okay if the law changed and 16 year olds were considered adults tomorrow, would that be true?


Of course it would, in the eyes of the law. [/quote
This proves that 18 isn’t an adult. Thank you.


I have never encountered a more obtuse person on this forum. 18 year olds are legal adults. Maybe repetition will work for you, sort of like multiplication tables.


18 year olds are not adults.


The law is what it is, sweet cheeks. 18 years olds are adults.


So since your 18 year is an adult, what do you do for them?
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Only someone extremely dumb takes the time to write something as stupid as this.


Only a pedo disagrees with me.


18 year olds are adults.


No, they aren’t. You must be mentally 7, to believe that teenagers who raise their hand in class to go to the bathroom can be adults.


18 year olds who can sign legal contracts, vote, get married without your permission are adults. Your hissy fits mean nothing in the eyes of the law.


If the law changed tomorrow and 14 year olds were considered adults, would that be okay?


If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a bicycle?


That’s what your implying when you say that 18 year olds are adults.
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Only someone extremely dumb takes the time to write something as stupid as this.


Only a pedo disagrees with me.


18 year olds are adults.


No, they aren’t. You must be mentally 7, to believe that teenagers who raise their hand in class to go to the bathroom can be adults.


18 year olds who can sign legal contracts, vote, get married without your permission are adults. Your hissy fits mean nothing in the eyes of the law.


If the law changed tomorrow and 14 year olds were considered adults, would that be okay?


If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a bicycle?


That’s what your implying when you say that 18 year olds are adults.


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Not sure who you are but I posted about 50 something predator women who prey on teen boys. They are nasty people, and you must be one too.
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Only someone extremely dumb takes the time to write something as stupid as this.


Only a pedo disagrees with me.


18 year olds are adults.


No, they aren’t. You must be mentally 7, to believe that teenagers who raise their hand in class to go to the bathroom can be adults.


18 year olds who can sign legal contracts, vote, get married without your permission are adults. Your hissy fits mean nothing in the eyes of the law.


If the law changed tomorrow and 14 year olds were considered adults, would that be okay?


If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a bicycle?


Isn’t adult a legal term? It can be changed right to be any age?


It sure is. It gives the 18 year old complete ability to make decisions for himself. Something he will probably utilize as soon as his able considering how crazy the poster who is arguing with me is. The fact that she disagrees with the law, or me, or even her adult child one day is completely irrelevant. It’s the law that I keep referring to that gives him that ability.


No, he didn’t use his “legal” right to do anything. Your child will want nothing to do with you when their older if you continue down this path.
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Anonymous wrote:Only groomers, predators, and pedos think 18 is an adult. “Oh it’s legal! Omg!”.


Only someone extremely dumb takes the time to write something as stupid as this.


Only a pedo disagrees with me.


18 year olds are adults.


No, they aren’t. You must be mentally 7, to believe that teenagers who raise their hand in class to go to the bathroom can be adults.


18 year olds who can sign legal contracts, vote, get married without your permission are adults. Your hissy fits mean nothing in the eyes of the law.


If the law changed tomorrow and 14 year olds were considered adults, would that be okay?


If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a bicycle?


Isn’t adult a legal term? It can be changed right to be any age?


It sure is. It gives the 18 year old complete ability to make decisions for himself. Something he will probably utilize as soon as his able considering how crazy the poster who is arguing with me is. The fact that she disagrees with the law, or me, or even her adult child one day is completely irrelevant. It’s the law that I keep referring to that gives him that ability.


No, he didn’t use his “legal” right to do anything. Your child will want nothing to do with you when their older if you continue down this path.


You’re tryin too hard. I know I really work you with facts and logic, but you lose a lot of credibility when you resort to personal insults. The point is that anyone has that protection of the law once they reach 18. How you feel about it makes zero difference. Your 18 year old may financially depend on you so you get to coddle him a few more years, but if he wanted to leave tomorrow and never speak to you again, he would have that legal right.
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Anonymous wrote:Take phone or car away for x amount of days.


at 18?????

Ridiculous. He shovels when he gets home. Case closed.


Ridiculous, how?

18 is a teen child.


18 is not a child. 18 is an adult who can sign legal contracts, be drafted, and vote. You treating him like a 10 year old doesn't change that.


What they are legally and emotionally are not one and the same.
We don’t just give up on them when they’re 18. They’re part of a family and should help out.
I would make him do it after school if it still needs doing.


I didn't say he shouldn't help you FFS. Everyone who lives in the household should help out. I specifically said several times he should do it after school. However, if you're still taking his phone away as punishment at 18, you've completely failed as a parent. That's who I was responding to.


It isn’t. Just cause my kid is magically an “adult”, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking their phone away.


Well I never said you're not a shitty parent.


Well, then all DCUM parents might be shitty parents, because their so involved in their 18 year olds college application process.


There is a difference in providing guidance and advice and treating your 18 year old like a 10 year old by taking his phone away.


But you’ll take your 17 year olds phone away? Taking a phone away isn’t treating them like a 10 year old, it’s treating them like the teen child, that they are. The phone isn’t payed by them either.


Stop trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I would take it away from a 17 year old either. Just face the fact that you've been a shitty, ineffective parent if you are resorting to this tactic at 17 or 18. They are ADULTS!!!! Start treating them like adults.


Okay, atleast your consistent right. But no, 17 and 18 year olds are literal children, not adults. My god.


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I don't know how many times I need to say this. 18 year olds are adults. If he broke the law, he would be treated as an adult in the legal system because that's what he is. But sure, mommy, take his phone away. That will teach him.


The law is BS. Do you think everything about the law is 100% correct 100% of the time?


What difference does that make? My opinion of the law does not change it one iota.



If the law is your only justification as to why teenage high school children are adults, that should speak for itself.


It's not my justification. It's a fact. Again, you seem to be struggling with basic facts.

I also said several times that parenting your 18 year old adult the same way you parent your 10 year old is completely ridiculous and ineffective, and if you're still using the same tactics at 18 that you did at 10 you failed. A logical person knows this already.


Fact based off of what? From where? I really feel sorry for your children. Your being contradictory right now by saying that you need to parent your 18 year old adult. It isn’t ineffective to take your teen child’s phone way, it works best.


I can't decide if you're really this dumb or just pretending to be. 18 year olds are adults in the eyes of the law. THAT IS A FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Please show me where I said you don't need to parent them at all. My mother still parents me from a different continent at almost 48 years old. She doesn't punish me by taking my phone away, which is what you're trying to do. Just idiotic and purposefully obtuse.


Adults do not need parenting.

Are 18 year olds and almost 48 years olds the same?


You're an idiot.


You’re more of an idiot and emotionally stunted and immature to think that you as an almost 48 year old are the same as a teenage high school little child.


That is not what I said. But it's not surprising that someone who can't grasp that 18 year olds are legally adutls also can't grasp something else.


You continue to dodge the real question. We’re not talking about legality.


You're not because you can't grasp that your 18 year old is an adult. The rest of us are able to grasp basic facts.


You haven’t shown me any evidence.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_age


Okay. It seems like the term “adult” is used incorrectly in society. It shouldn’t be used as a marker for when you are given more rights in society. That does not mean that person is an actual adult, it’s old fashioned, arbitrary, and needs to change. Science agrees with me. An adult is a fully mature and grown person, not someone who can do xxx due to some person in history deciding that’s old enough. It might’ve been old enough then, but not now in 2026. And teenagers were always children anyway, now and 500 years ago. Law means nothing. I’m surprised my the amount of people who truly think children can be adults. How sad and awful for these children to be raised by people like this.


Who gets to decide when they are adults?


Society does, but MODERN society.


Exactly. We have. The law says 18. That's how society decides.


No, modern society hasn’t decided that. What? 2020s and beyond is nowhere near the same as 1960s or 1970s.

And why exactly is 18 the chosen age and not 17 or 19, if the law is so correct and not arbitrary?


How do you not understand that the law is 18? How am I still having to repeat this pages later? It's lunacy.


Again, why is the law correct? You keep doing the same thing, avoiding answering questions, because you know that you’re wrong. You seem demented.


Coming from a person who can't even acknowledge a basic fact. It doesn't matter if the law is correct. It is the law. If you don't like it, it makes not difference. You still have to obey it. If you don't like it, you can try to change it. BE sure you present all that "evidence" you claim to have yet haven't presented in any of your idiotic rantings and name calling.


Your being contradictory again. You can’t answer whether is law is correct about this, and think others should change it, that proves that you’re claim of 18 being an adult is not a fact. If the law is incorrect, it’s still a fact to you and right, what? I’m not going to waste any of my time presenting you with any evidence of something that’s basic knowledge. You’re almost 48 year old brain still would not understand any of it.


Right, you're not going to waste time because you have nothing to support your idiocy. The law is the law. Your opinion and mine are irrelevant. Your 18 year is a legal adult.


18 is not an adult. Just stop. You can’t give any proof and continue to spread lies.


You're either mentally challenged or trolling. Probably both.


Your the one who seems mentally challenged, probably at the level of an 11 year old. Your stupid and useless to society.


Says the dip$h!t who doesn't understand the difference between "your" and "you're". Nice one.


If your 18 year old is such a grown adult, why do you still make them doctor appointments and take them to their pediatrician? Why do you pay for their college? Why do they not live independently? Why do you pay for their phone and car, gas, housing? Why are you so involved in their academics? Why do you talk to them daily?


This is so true. They are just too stupid to understand this. Hopefully their children cut them out of their life and they never have any grandkids. Their bloodlines should end there.


Too stupid to understand that you’re infantalzing your 18 year old because you want him to depend on you as long as possible? Nope. It’s pretty obvious.



No, I don’t want my kid to depend for as long as possible. If they did I still wouldn’t care because their my child, no matter their age, they should still obey and respect me and I’ll offer them food, money, whatever they want. I’m not infantilizing a child by calling them a child.


Just because you insist on making their doctors appt and enticing them to like you with financing their life, does not take away from their right and legal ability to not speak to you ever again. They most certainly do not have to obey you after they become adults at 18. Hopefully there is MUTUAL respect and love at that point, but it sure doesn’t look like it from many of you.
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Anonymous wrote:Only groomers, predators, and pedos think 18 is an adult. “Oh it’s legal! Omg!”.


Only someone extremely dumb takes the time to write something as stupid as this.


Only a pedo disagrees with me.


18 year olds are adults.


No, they aren’t. You must be mentally 7, to believe that teenagers who raise their hand in class to go to the bathroom can be adults.


18 year olds who can sign legal contracts, vote, get married without your permission are adults. Your hissy fits mean nothing in the eyes of the law.


If the law changed tomorrow and 14 year olds were considered adults, would that be okay?


If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a bicycle?


Isn’t adult a legal term? It can be changed right to be any age?


It sure is. It gives the 18 year old complete ability to make decisions for himself. Something he will probably utilize as soon as his able considering how crazy the poster who is arguing with me is. The fact that she disagrees with the law, or me, or even her adult child one day is completely irrelevant. It’s the law that I keep referring to that gives him that ability.


No, he didn’t use his “legal” right to do anything. Your child will want nothing to do with you when their older if you continue down this path.


You’re tryin too hard. I know I really work you with facts and logic, but you lose a lot of credibility when you resort to personal insults. The point is that anyone has that protection of the law once they reach 18. How you feel about it makes zero difference. Your 18 year old may financially depend on you so you get to coddle him a few more years, but if he wanted to leave tomorrow and never speak to you again, he would have that legal right.


18 being an “adult” is not a fact.


It sure is. Google it.


It’s not a fact. It’s BS. Only people with IQs below 100 and impoverished people believe that 18 year olds are adults.


Low IQ is the person who refuses to aknowledge the law of the land. It’s lunacy.


Is the law subjective or objective? If it’s subjective then 18 is not an adult.


It is objectively the law. Your dumb repetition of the dumb questions doesn’t change that.


How is it objectively the law, if it can be changed tomorrow?


Your stupidity and trolling are boring me.


How is 18 objectively an adult, if the stupid law can be changed tomorrow? You can’t answer that. You know your wrong. Do you have 18 year old friends?


That is the current law. That’s what makes it objectively the law. Ffs please learn how to write. I doubt you can understand me if you keep insisting on using your and you’re incorrectly.


Your, you’re who cares. I certainly do not. Is your kid 18?
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