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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two of mine are 20 and 23. Each went to college when they were 16. Here are the rules they had:

1. If you're home for a month or more, you must be doing something that equals full time, whether that's a quickie course at the local college to bang out a requirement combined with a job, or just a full time job. 
2. You are to contain your mess to your bedroom, and not do anything to attract animals.
3. You are absolutely welcome to do laundry, but may not leave clothes in either machine any longer than eight hours.
4. You are to let me know by 4pm if you will be home for dinner or not, and are to ask by 4pm if you want to invite friends to our dinner. If you want to have friends over after family dinner time and THEN go making food or ordering in, you are cooking, paying and cleaning up from it.
5. If you're staying out later than I am staying awake, you are to close my bedroom door completely once you're home (that's the kids signal they're home without waking me). You are to lock the door and not to wake other people up. 
6. You are to ask if you can have friends over. As in high school, you are responsible for either getting them to clean up any messes or cleaning them up yourself, and getting your friends to follow house rules. If you can not get a friend to follow the rules and need me to play Mean Mommy, let me know.

I don't really bother saying no drinking and driving. That's like saying "Don't murder people." Of course the kids know to follow all the laws. I don't mind if they sleep late as long as they meet their obligations (job, college course). They know they can always call if they don't have a sober way of getting home. Some of these are basic and about respecting a home. If you eat the dinner someone else prepared you are helping to clean up from it. They know if they want to have a friend over for dinner they need to tell the friend to contribute. "Help me set the table," or "We have to empty the dishwasher," or something. I try to treat them like adult roommates they want to be, with a bit of extra mom-help. [/quote]

Rules to ensure kids move far, far away.[/quote]

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