[xsmommy]

i can't even imagine what i would do if i were you. open defiance would make me lose my mind. and i think that xshub would have xsboy in a military school before it would ever get to that. rules are rules while living under someone else's roof.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I am at that point almost....I just don't think he would do very well in it. He's not really openly defiant...he's sneaks around and tries not to get caught.

[Dutchgirl]

while living under someone else's roof...

In colonial times, it was common to farm one's children out to other relatives once they reached puberty. It meant that all of the anti-parent rebellion had to be carried out under someone elses roof, and all those buttons one suceeded in learning in youth, had to be abandoned for adulthood.

I think it is where the phrase"Talking like an uncle" came from.