Am I the only one who thinks her parents should never have let her go in the first place? (Even if she was 18, you can oftentimes keep kids from doing things if you really put your foot down.) I saw the mom on TV saying she wouldn't leave without her daughter, and thought, you know, if you had gone down there with her in the first place, you'd still have your daughter.
If they live under my roof, eat my food and spend my money, being 18, 19, 20 does not mean a damned thing. What I say goes. They have three choices at 18, live under my authority, go down to the admissions desk at the university or march their ass down to the recruiter's office.
With Howard Dean the dems have formally graduated from "disarray" to "debacle", with "irretrievable disaster" just around the corner.
If they live under my roof, eat my food and spend my money, being 18, 19, 20 does not mean a damned thing. What I say goes. They have three choices at 18, live under my authority, go down to the admissions desk at the university or march their ass down to the recruiter's office. Those were our house rules, too!
Thank god, mine are adults and staring middle-age in the face. lol