When do your kids stop being children?

[grumpybastard]

I have this theory that i wonder if those AULROians with older kids can confirm or deny?

I have this theory that it doesn't matter how old your children are you still consider them as children. I have always had this theory but once again it came to the forefront of my mind after yesterday. (aka, i wanted to throttle my eldest)

My eldest is 25, has a new born child and girlfriend.

Well he rang me on Thursday pleased as he finally was approved for a rental property after applying for many rentals. He lived with his mother (my ex) with a joint lease and she had given him a bad mark by not paying rent etc.

Anyway im getting side tracked...

So, i received a call and he said that he was picking the keys up on Saturday, so i offered to give him a hand to move on Saturday.

I was told nah that's fine Dad we are moving on Sunday we dont have much to move and i have organised a few mates to give me a hand and im borrowing Uncle Davids ute and Tandem trailer.

Okay mate i tell him... no worries... i cant help you on Sunday im heading up to Ballarat.

Nah thats fine im told its all in hand.

A bit before 4pm Saturday afternoon i get a call just as im putting the girls into the car to head down the park with there bikes for a ride.

Can you help me move?

After a little bit of quizzing i find out he has to work on Sunday and that he hasnt organised the trailer or anything yet!

To make matter worse he was moving from Mornington to Mitcham about an hour each way.

So cutting a long story short i finally got home a bit before midnight shaking my head and wondering if he will ever grow up?

Was i really like this at 25?

[DirtyDawg]

My Daughters 18th today and she is too busy to visit:mad::mad:

Selfish little phukers they are today and only think of themselves..I have to explain to my 4yr old why her sister isnt picking up her present....
0-12 I love them 12+ it starts to wain:mad:

[JDNSW]

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Was i really like this at 25?

Probably!

Mine are 36 and 38, and I am still having the same sort of experience with them!

John

[grumpybastard]

My Daughters 18th today and she is too busy to visit:mad::mad:

Selfish little phukers they are today and only think of themselves..I have to explain to my 4yr old why her sister isnt picking up her present....
0-12 I love them 12+ it starts to wain:mad:

I read somewhere and my memory is a bit vague but it went along the lines that the part of the brain that shows consideration for others actually decreases at puberty and doesn't mature again till mid 20's


Probably!

Mine are 36 and 38, and I am still having the same sort of experience with them!

John

This statement is depressing, my youngest is 2YO, does that meant i still have another 35+ years of this!?!

Anyway i had better get the girls ready im off to Ballarat to go visit my parents.

[Bushwanderer]

Hi All,
I'm on the other side.

I'm 56 & my mother still treats me like a child. :( I rationalise by saying that she can't stop being a mother.

I don't have any kids but have 5 great surrogate grandkids. :D:D:D

[bblaze]

youngest at 20, next 24, then 28. We have been blessed with 3 kids that seem to be thoughtful and tolerant. 2 eldest boys, youngest my baby daughter. Only middle son still at home, Oldest son is 80km away and daughter in Perth, WA. Even at that distance she would be home on the first flight if needed. As I said, we have been blessed
Do they ever grow up, hope not, have I have grown up, again I hope not. Just do things with a little more maturity
cheers
blaze

[landyfromanuthaland]

U probably were, I have a 16 year old who thinks hes 25 and wont be told otherwise, if only we could beat them like I used to get flogged both at home and school, sure took the smileof my face

[jsp]

Hmm now 30 with a big sis who is 36 and has utter contempt for her whole family, to the point of DNA testing to ensure she wasn't adopted, I don't know how I fit in.

I think back over the past 15 years and I did things which yeah, were dumb and pointless and antagonising for both my parents, but I also did allot of good stuff they weren't expecting and still talk about to this day.

My big sis if having fella troubles, and I have a hunch she's going to call me for the first time in nearly 3 years and demand I come over and cart all her junk back with my trailer from Melb to Adelaide next weekend.

you can choose your friends.......

[jsp]

U probably were, I have a 16 year old who thinks hes 25 and wont be told otherwise, if only we could beat them like I used to get flogged both at home and school, sure took the smileof my face

I couldn't agree more.....my dad only hit me once that I remmeber, and the rest of the time he just had to look at me that way again and I conceded, untill I was about 16 and was looking down at him :(

[Lotz-A-Landies]

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I have this theory that it doesn't matter how old your children are you still consider them as children. I have always had this theory but once again it came to the forefront of my mind after yesterday. (aka, i wanted to throttle my eldest)
My older brother is 54 and about as inconsiderate as your 25 year old son.

My parents will not hear from him for a year, he misses the birth, and birthdays of his grandchildren then turns up to my parents saying he needs to borrow several thousand dollars.

Everytime this happens, my parents say it is the last time. (The bill is now well over $100,000.00)

What is worse he never ever attempts to pay anything back.:nazilock:

Diana

[olmate]

I have 3 daughters who I love very much. I get to speak to them every Sunday night - thats if I ring them. They seem very pre-occupied with everything and forget about those around them that care very much... A sign of the times I spose :(

Right now - I am going to ring them again.

[p38arover]

Was i really like this at 25?

At 25 I'd been married 3 years (still together). I'd moved from Sydney to Moree at 20 for my job and never went back home to live. Got married whilst living in Ceduna, moved to Carnarvon, then back to Penrith and into our own home when I was 24 (and Elisabeth 23) - paid it off before I was 30.

Ron

[landyfromanuthaland]

Even though my mum and dad live only 5 mins away and I see them practically daily dad still rings me everynight for his chat, I dont mind at all, I was bought up knowing right from wrong and belted if otherwise I sure as hell dont hold his methods against him, I thank him for being the strict task master he was and still is but I look at things differently my parents looked after well as a child and through my teenage years and they still do so I figure when they are old or if dad goes anytime soon mum will come and live with my family and it will be my turn to look after her/them as I still do today, it pains me to see how the teenagers and some older ones carry on today its absolutely wrong and they just cant see what they are doing nor will they be told, my boys go out as youngens do and stay out till all hours, they come home to eat change the clobber and of they go again, no hellos goodbyes etc, where did we go wrong? we didnt we cant compete with the peer pressure these days, its enormous

[rovercare]

My Daughters 18th today and she is too busy to visit:mad::mad:

Selfish little phukers they are today and only think of themselves..I have to explain to my 4yr old why her sister isnt picking up her present....
0-12 I love them 12+ it starts to wain:mad:

Its HER ithday not yours, think about visiting her:mad:

[p38arover]

Even though my mum and dad live only 5 mins away and I see them practically daily dad still rings me everynight for his chat,

I think I've spoken to my father once in the last year and that was on his birthday.

One brother I haven't seen or spoken to for at least 2 years and he lives about 5km from me. Two brothers I haven't seen or spoken to in over 10 years - hang on, make that 20 years, ditto one sister - and I have absolutely no idea of where they live, not even in which State.

Of the remaining 5 sisters, I've only spoken to one about twice in the past 3 years. I'm not sure I even have most of their addresses or phone nos. I certainly wouldn't recognise their kids and I don't know the names of most of them.

Ron

[Disco Steve]

I see alot of the guys I went to school with doing this, EASY LIVING.

I'm 18 and working full time. Living at home and paying rent. Own loan for the Disco.

[landyfromanuthaland]

I have a brother and sister in Darwin who I speak to a few times a week, my younger sis lives between me and ma and pa and we see each other fairly regularly, my dad would hang us if he thought we were neglecting our family members by not talking, dad only has rule know matter where u are in the world u come home for xmas day, I have had 39 xmas days with my family, though we alternate the actual time either lunch or dinner as we have the in laws to please as well, I have cousins I havent seen from birth and Elle Macpherson is a third cousin though I have never met her my older sister and elle share some features, blood is thicker then water I guess

[DirtyDawg]

Its HER ithday not yours, think about visiting her:mad:
She is too transient dont even know where she is living at the moment..and on top of that I cant find the phuck you smiley Icon:twisted:

[stevo68]

I think its a bit like the old adage " In your teens you think you know everything" "In your 20's you realise you know nothing" and then in your 30's onwards you start to learn.


and on top of that I cant find the phuck you smiley Icon:twisted: LOL


Regards

Stevo

[incisor]

I cant find the phuck you smiley Icon:twisted:
it wore out ages ago.... :P