When the girls turned 18, they tried that adult thing, you know, "you can't tell me what to do, I'm 18".... I just told them I had 'financial supreme power'.... Works great! LOL .. when we tried that .. my mother would just look at us and say .."Don't like it.. well there's the door"
It didn't take long to figure out what she meant .. LOL
Yes .. she was a mean mommy to ..
Or "you want to live on your own? Fine." Then give them the rundown of what things like rent, heat, water, food,
PHONE, CLOTHES, costs and ask them how are they going to afford it working at McDonalds flipping burgers!
I'm a mean mommy too. I learned it in the mommy manual.