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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking for advice from those who have been there / done that. My 18 year old just graduated last week and we are getting ready to lay down some rules of the house and expectations for the summer. So far we have: get a job five days a week, exercise daily, set one goal for the summer (money goal, physical goal, ???), curfew 10 pm weeknights (we have a dog that wakes up the house) and midnight on the weekend, and make dinner for the family one day a week. Do you have them contribute any other way? Along with daily house chores (dishes, feed the animals, etc) are we being ridiculous even thinking this will stick? How many rules/chores do you give kids on their way to college or coming home from first year? [/quote]

You need to dial it down. This is a ridiculous list for that age, imo.
10 pm curfew? LMFAO.

It's fair to have them contribute to the household chores. It's fair to ask them to get a job (but you should dial back your expectations, unless they are able to lifeguard, babysit, that sort of thing. A lot of places don't want to work around the schedule of a kid this age).

These are new adults. There is responsibility and there are just arbitrary sets of rules. Yours is the latter. Unless you never want to see them as an adult . . . ?[/quote]

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