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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of parents making excuses for their kids here. It’s everybody else’s fault, etc. There are plenty of 24 year olds that have figured out how to live by themselves by now, I guess they made it happen instead of making excuses. [/quote]

Not a single poster has made excuses for their kids. Yes plenty of kids work it out. Plenty more have significant parental help for years. What’s your point? This kid sounds like a good, hard-working kid in need of some tome to reset. Some of you are really harsh on the kids.[/quote]

If he was a good, hard working kid he could hold down a job in the restaurant industry, and even if he lost it he would have a new job in a few days.

Honestly, sounds like he is a lazy, unmotivated adult man who needs to leave his mommy's teet behind. Sounds like he has been blackballed in his city so wants to continue to mooch off his hardworking father (who is luckily smart enough to push back against it).

OP: it's time to let go. He is 24, has a college degree he clearly has no desire to use, and has also wasted way too much of your cash on said degree. Sounds like if he was my kid he would likely have been on his own at age 18 because of his laziness. You did far more then you should have and now have to deal with the consequences. It's a tough bandaid to pull but you have to before he is in his mid-forties and still mooching off you.[/quote]

[b]LOL.  1.  did you actually read the thread?  2. this may win the "I'm projecting my own issues onto the OP" award for the day[/b].[/quote]

EXACTLY!  I was wondering/thinking the same thing!  [b]The kid, and yes at 24 he is still a kid[/b], sounds like a great guy and OP sounds like a thoughtful parent.  The ^^PP on the other hand … [/quote]

When does he stop being a kid? When he has a child? When he's 30? The infantilization here is serious. [/quote]

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