30+ Still with Mum and Dad

Surely like many of you, I’m part of some groups on themes of personal interest. Every so often I see a post that triggers me.

I might be about to sound quite harsh for some, but as I’m old school AND still hold some of those old views, that won’t stop me 😂

I’m sorry… 30  and still ay mum and dad’s? I would be deeply embarrassed. I mean, even if they pay rent, surely that learning curve has expired by 30… How little ambition do you have to have to just cling on to your parents?

Like my parents I make a point to remind my children how much everything costs and what other things we are unable to have for making those choices. It’s all about transmitting them a sense of responsibility, priority and value.

I know this can be annoying (my father did it often, even though as I got older I realised we were not that poor) but it surely made me want to leave so I didn’t have to put up with his moaning! And I think that’s working the same for my children.

In reality, nothing ever went missing in my life. I had all I needed to grow into a healthy, responsible adult.

Social media brings a lazy success deceit that leads these new generations to believe that anybody can be successful just by posting random online videos. We need to stop normalising this. There is a current viral misguiding of our children into this unlikely profitable fare niente. Not only is this misleading, but it also drives our young ones into this affiliation exploitation. But I diverge.

II always tell my children to ALWAYS have a Plan B. They can still play around online and test the waters, but I want them to be aware that it is a very volatile world. What is true today can become a lie tomorrow. And unfortunately, the virtual world is starting to overflow to the real one at several levels. But that’s a view for another post 😏

Always plan for the event to go wrong. Always have a job you can fall back on. And the better the job, the higher the chances to maintain whatever life style you are looking to achieve with Plan A.