Your Children-Left Home And Stayed Gone Or Returned And....?

I have two children. Both my oldest son and my youngest daughter did the same thing They of course stayed at home throughout highschool and then both went off to college both coming back home during breaks. Once they both graduated they both returned home as my son was home for 1 year and my daughter moved out with a girlfriend only 3 months after graduation. After the moved out they never returned.
 

Silverfox said:
I have two children. Both my oldest son and my youngest daughter did the same thing They of course stayed at home throughout highschool and then both went off to college both coming back home during breaks. Once they both graduated they both returned home as my son was home for 1 year and my daughter moved out with a girlfriend only 3 months after graduation. After the moved out they never returned.
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Most Americans look down on children who live at home past college. I disagree. If the parents don't mind them staying, if they all get along, if the children help with money or at least help with chores, I think it's wise to live at home while they save up money to pay for student loans and then to build up savings to either move to their own place or buy a home. I have a friend who lives with her mother as a part time caretaker and her son lives there, too. He has a job and helps around the house, he's saving money to buy himself a condo. Very wise.

I do have a problem with children who stay home and either don't work, or don't help with money or chores, or do work and spend all their money on frivolities.
 
PVC said:
Most Americans look down on children who live at home past college. I disagree. If the parents don't mind them staying, if they all get along, if the children help with money or at least help with chores, I think it's wise to live at home while they save up money to pay for student loans and then to build up savings to either move to their own place or buy a home. I have a friend who lives with her mother as a part time caretaker and her son lives there, too. He has a job and helps around the house, he's saving money to buy himself a condo. Very wise.

I do have a problem with children who stay home and either don't work, or don't help with money or chores, or do work and spend all their money on frivolities.
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I totally agree with you. I was actually surprised when my son left the nest after a year being home from college. He had a nice job he had started, but it was more his personality to want to stay home. My daughter on the other hand I was not surprised she wanted to move out on her own or with a friend. She is more the free spirit and I kind of saw the writing on the wall with her leaving. At the time she left she didn't even have her steady job lined up yet. It was very nerve racking on myself and my husband, but we let her start her own journey and she made it.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
You think he'd get paid not to play the bagpipes.
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:cool: I quite like the sound of bagpipes, but believe I've had the good fortune of only hearing highly skilled bagpipers.

Having grown up with a sister who made the family suffer through her very long clarinet learning curve, I can only imagine what aspiring bagpipers' families go through.
 
Bagpipes can be such a sad sounding instrument. To me, when I hear a bagpipe, I hear the emotion of the song. At my sister's funeral we had a bagpipe version of How Great Thou Art and it was beautiful. I don't care much for the songs played by multiple bagpipes but the solo's are heartbreaking to hear.

**Sorry folks. I guess I'm in a melancholy mood tonight**
 

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