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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for this, and any other practical tips.

He just graduated last weekend. Arrived home yesterday. Already has plans to play basketball and golf with high school friends and a party this weekend. Making plans to get together with an out of town GF. This is what cannot continue. It's too much of the "just another summer" mindset.

He had a third interview for what sounds like a terrific opportunity on Monday, but is not feeling hopeful about the outcome.

We had these ideas:

Put him in charge of dinner for the family one night a week.
Expected to be up and out of bed (bed made) by 8:00 each weekday, working on job search. 
If no real job offer by June 1 (mid June?), he finds an hourly job in retail, etc, working a minimum of 30 hours a week, to include weekends.

Other thoughts? [/quote]

These sound like good ideas. Although I would not specify bedtimes or wake up times, he's a big boy and needs to figure all that out.

The dinner idea one day a week is good though.

It will be easier for him to find another job if he is working *any* job he can find to tide him over. After he finds any job, slowly start introducing expenses he needs to pay (phone bill share, internet share, etc...)

Goal.is to soft.launch him as an adult. [/quote]

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