(This was intended to be a post to another thread relating to our opinions about our children.
http://www.pixies-place.com:81/foru...?threadid=15392)
After suffering through setting this to paper [paper = codger talk for electronic word document] I felt this enduring thread more appropriate. I will, from time to time, attempt to muster the strength to relate the two additional migration of son and the one, but GRAND, exodus of the daughter.)

Parents should NOT convert their kids rooms. Parents should get the house keys when they leave. Parents should not visit uninvited for at least 3 months. College tuition should only be paid from place of residence.

About six months after my son, daughter and I were living together alone, son moves in with a buddy. He needs a few pots and pans from an “unused” gourmet kitchen. Of course a few towels, some bed linen, a chair from the family room etc.

Three weeks later his buddy moves out and his new airline stewardess girlfriend has moved in.

Four months later he moves back home after 2 other buddies take over the 1 year lease. He has his bed & dresser, some clothes in one shopping bag and a leather garter belt and $375 phone bill to Montego Bay in another one. His 3.2 GPA is now 2.1 as he forgot to go to the classes he registered for. Even without cracking a book we both got an education so maybe it was money well spent.

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