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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, especially if he has a girlfriend or is dating, make sure that you share the house. You are all adults. All adults need some time, when it's assured, that they will have the house to themselves. Occasionally. He should get to have company over, without you their. For example, let him know mid week that Saturday night, you will be gone from 7- 11:30pm. Nothing more gets discussed. Don't speculate. Just be gone some and be reliable about it.[/quote]

No, I pay the mortgage and for college.  I come and go from my own house as I please and do not need to schedule alone time for my kid...weird.[/quote]

Yea, I agree.  What a stupid suggestion.  It's your friggin house and you should never be expected to vacate it.  Your kid living there for free will just have to deal.  In fact, it would never occur to any normal kid that a parent should be expected to.

Generally I just find this to be a super weird thread.  I guess most of the posters are Type A parents and this is their first child coming home from college?

In our house, this is how it happened.  The school year ended, the kid came home, got a job, starting volunteering, whatever.  And we co-existed just like we always did.  We didn't have to have a sit down or "family meeting" and set "rules" or "define expectations" like "text when you're gonna be really late" or "don't expect that your gf or bf can sleep over" or "no drugs or alcohol in the house," etc etc etc.  We didn't have to because our kids had the common sense, decency, and benefit of good parenting before they ever left for college to know what is expected of them.

The whole thing is a non-event.  What is it with you people who insist on taking the hard road to parenting??? [/quote]

EXACTLY.  Louder for the very strange parents in the back.
DP[/quote]

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