Top Tips for Living With Your Lazy Sons

We had 2 sons that are described quite accurately here and we went through all the experiences per the script. What surprised us was that we also have a daughter who is going through the same thing. She is now 25 and we are praying that she will come out of it. Nowadays she is a little more malliable, using us as emotional sounding boards and of course, the bank of mum and dad. We did actually emigrate (well, move across a 4 mile stretch of water) after selling the family home out from under them and kicking them all out. At the time the girls were 18 and 20 and off to university and the boys were 22 and 25 and layabouts. According to the boys' friends, it was the best thing we could ever have done for them both, as they then started to stand on their own 2 feet (notwithstanding the bank of mum and dad - which is still hemorrgaeging money their way to some extent. While responsibility for offspring never really goes away, responsibility for each other is far more important and we are now really enjoying a quieter life, doing what we want to do. Like most people, if we had realised just how much hard work goes into parenting, we probably wouldn't have had kids. That said, I think Mother Nature is very clever about giving us the urge to procreate - otherwise mankind would have died our centuries ago.