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2022-02-12 Economy

The adult 'boomerang kids' moving home to their parents

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-12 05:58|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 In exchange for living rent-free, she helped drive her grandparents to appointments, ran errands, cooked and did chores around the house. She ended up staying nearly two years.

I believe most parents who have the means, would welcome the opportunity to help during these difficult times.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-12 06:06|| 2022-02-12 06:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing unusual for kids to get a false start and quickly get slapped in the face with the real world, with JOBS cuts and layoffs during certain Political cycles.

But when ours returned, we were clear about one Golden House Rule. Stay as long as you need and contribute. But understand it is "Our House - Our Rules, a discussion is OK!, but your Mom & I are the final say.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-02-12 08:16|| 2022-02-12 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 If as seems likely we separate from the Wokesters and create our own parallel culture with its own self-reliant communities, we will have to replace the extreme individualism of the Woke society with a traditionalist ethos based on strong families and mutual support.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 08:45|| 2022-02-12 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 The mindset problem in a nutshell...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-12 08:49|| 2022-02-12 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 30 years old and taking a job overseas that pays nothing. She's going to be homeless when mom and dad pass away.

Posted by Chris 2022-02-12 10:32|| 2022-02-12 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 "I was able to save enough money to pay off all those debts that I had, to finance a car and then ultimately to move out," she explains. It was beneficial financially, she says, and good to be close to family, but it required her to adjust her ideas of what adulthood should look like."

This simply sounds mature to me. Nothing wrong with volunteering to teach refugees English; I'd like to find some reason to go to Marseilles myself! But it sounds like she did the right thing for exactly the right reasons.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-02-12 22:40|| 2022-02-12 22:40|| Front Page Top

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