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• So. Was it Good for You?

  Mother's Day is nearly over.  Thank God!! Partners and their baby mamas everywhere are breathing a collective sigh of relief, children are high on the sugar from the early morning pancakes, phone calls have been made (it's not too late!!). So.  How was yours?   Read More... Posted May 11 2008, 07:30 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: teens, holidays, adult children, Mother's Day, mother's day sucks, i hate mother's day, adult children who don't care, kids who don't call on mother's day, family conflict, set up, emotional baggage, holiday hell, when husbands forget mother's day, mothers and children

• Wednesday Night is Parental Sex Night

  "Ah yeah, girl -- tonight we're going to make love. You know how I know? Because it's Wednesday, and Wednesday night is the night we make love." If you're a tired parent. If you've had a long, nails-on-chalk-board day watching after an ever-more rambunctious toddler. If you're just looking for a little mid-week lovin'. Trust me, try another line tonight. It might have worked on "Flight of the Conchords" but it doesn't work in real life. Stupid Jemaine. Posted Jul 25 2007, 11:58 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: television, adult children, television watching

• Adult Children Still Suck Money Off of their Parents

  According to the BBC news, four out of every 10 Scottish parents in the have gone into their savings accounts to help out their adult children. This comes as no surprise to me. I could never have purchased my house without help from my parents (and my in-laws). The article says that the average parents gift £12,300 to their adult offspring to help them buy home furnishings, a property or their own car. If I used my currency converter correctly (I love the internet) that is $23,697.42 in U.S. Dollars (hence the dollar sign, I never know what is appropriate). The researchers came to the conclusion that while the society seems to be getting wealthier a lot of the wealth has to be transferred between generations. Professor Merlin Stone worries that most of the money that is gifted is used for general life start up purchases. Come to think of it, the surprising part is that it is only four out of ten. Maybe the number is much higher in North America. Posted Mar 06 2007, 03:45 PM by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, money, adult children

• Washington Mom Admits She Coached Kids to Fake Retardation

  A while back, Johnny Knoxville got together with the Farrelly Brothers and brought us the film The Ringer. Knoxville, in a Brando-esque display of Method Acting, feigns mental retardation in order to enter the Special Olympics as a "ringer" so that he can win a fixed bet and erase a huge debt. Of course, Knoxville learns a lesson in life and love, and develops a new found respect and affection for the mentally challenged. It's not the greatest movie ever made, definitely a 13 or 14 in one's Netflix queue, but even I - a cold-hearted bastard if ever there was one - got a bit verklempt. So here we have life imitating art, without the feel-good ending. In an attempt to fleece the system, Rosie Costello instructed her kids, starting at ages 4 and 8, to fake retardation so that she could collect Social Security benefits. They were busted when social workers viewed a tape of son Pete contesting a traffic ticket in a Vancouver courtroom. Pete now faces six months to a year in prison, and may have to pay up to $59,000 in restitution. Daughter Marie has not yet been located. To borrow a line from Indiana Jones, "try the local sewer." At first I felt bad for the kids, but apparently they kept the ruse going until they were in their 20's. Rosie is scheduled to be sentenced on May 17. My feel-good ending? Rosie behind bars, banging out license plates to pay back the $280,000 she stole. Posted Feb 28 2007, 08:58 AM by JasonAvant with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: criminal behavior, bad parenting, jackass, are you insane?, crime, criminals, bad parents, police, parents behaving badly, adult children, bad children, Johnny Knoxville

• Parenting: You May Think it is Only for 18 Years, but You'd be Wrong

  You may be thinking that this parenting thing is an eighteen year commitment, but you would be really underestimating things. Barbara Bova wrote an article that was on Naplesnews.com about giving advice to your adult children. It is really scary when you think about it. If your daughter is having problems with her marriage and gets separated you would want to offer support, but you have to be careful. Can you trash her husband? Even if you really think her husband is a jerk they could reconcile and then you will look bad and you could end up driving your children away. Where is the line between offering your 30 year old child financial advice and interfering? I can only assume (just like with smaller kids) each child is different. I talk to my father about my finances all the time, then again, he is my stock broker. I have a lot of friends who don't talk about money issues with their parents. I have friends that talk to their mothers about their sex lives. I was embarrassed when I told my parents we were going to start trying to have a baby even though I knew my mom was dying for more Grandchildren. Bova says that the key is delicacy. While I agree with her, I also feel like tact is a good skill to have while offering advice to offspring of any age. Posted Feb 05 2007, 04:14 PM by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah with | with no comments Filed under: parenting, parenting advice, adult children