SweetFeet
Well-known Member
old tanker,
Just looking back on the Advise on GF's son discussion. LOVE YOUR 4-AIN'T RULES for life!!
Quoting old tanker here...in case some did not read that post.
"I came up with my "4 ain't" program for over 18.
If you ain't in school...
Or if you ain't working...
Or you ain't following the rules of my house...
YOU AIN'T LIVING HERE!"
Our son turns 18 soon - still a senior, is working hard at school and part time job and does weekly workouts to prep for Marines (he is enlisted to ship out after graduation next spring)... only problem is because he is already enlisted - he thinks he is 40 and does not really want to do any chores around home and thinks he should not need to ask our permission to come and go as he pleases.
We "kindly" explained that he is still a senior in high school...so YES we will know his whereabouts. And that YES he will help out around the house and yard - like it or not... just as we all do work around home because we are a family and we ALL LIVE HERE.
So since he will be 18 soon, he himself may choose to invoke AIN'T #4... due to his lack of wanting to follow AIN'T #3. Hope he does choose to remain living at home... but has a loser girlfriend beckoning him toward a shipwreck.
Love our boy dearly - but he's a tad headstrong. Some Marine drill instructor is going to have fun next year at bootcamp is all we are thinking.
Just looking back on the Advise on GF's son discussion. LOVE YOUR 4-AIN'T RULES for life!!
Quoting old tanker here...in case some did not read that post.
"I came up with my "4 ain't" program for over 18.
If you ain't in school...
Or if you ain't working...
Or you ain't following the rules of my house...
YOU AIN'T LIVING HERE!"
Our son turns 18 soon - still a senior, is working hard at school and part time job and does weekly workouts to prep for Marines (he is enlisted to ship out after graduation next spring)... only problem is because he is already enlisted - he thinks he is 40 and does not really want to do any chores around home and thinks he should not need to ask our permission to come and go as he pleases.
We "kindly" explained that he is still a senior in high school...so YES we will know his whereabouts. And that YES he will help out around the house and yard - like it or not... just as we all do work around home because we are a family and we ALL LIVE HERE.
So since he will be 18 soon, he himself may choose to invoke AIN'T #4... due to his lack of wanting to follow AIN'T #3. Hope he does choose to remain living at home... but has a loser girlfriend beckoning him toward a shipwreck.
Love our boy dearly - but he's a tad headstrong. Some Marine drill instructor is going to have fun next year at bootcamp is all we are thinking.