It's pretty common knowledge that most 'kids' or 'adult kids' are staying at home longer and longer. Some of my friends in their mid to late 20s are STILL at home and haven't even thought about leaving. This can obviously be the best arrangement for some people, but I think most parents start to drop subtle hints if their child is moving into their 20s and not moving out.
I've been away from home for years now, but, my mum decided I should be a grown up independent lady, pretty much from my last day of high school.
Well that's what she meant, except, she didn't really phrase it like that.
Some of my friend's parents would do things like leaving a "Guide to renting" in their bookshelf, or start making them pay board, or make lighthearted jokes about the need to grow up.
I've gotta give Mum credit. She was very creative in her strategies to get me to leave home. None of them involved a book on renting in my bookshelf. Pffft, that's so boring and conventional. Good on her, it was probably overpriced anyway.
One time I was walking out of the shower with a towel around me, (ooo stop it, sexy) and Mum said, "Oh sorry Michelle, I just washed the dogs with that towel you're using".
She didn't seem very sorry. More laugh-y.
But her biggest 'getting me to leave' angle was trying to eliminate me having my own bedroom in the house.
Let me explain.
Now if you are a fan of The Secret (which I am not), you will know that you need to positively visualise and attract the things you want into your life as though they are already real. I've said this before, but I tried this approach with getting Johnny Depp to marry me. I bought Pirates of the Carribean underwear with Johnny Depp on the front. Years later, and I haven't so much as met Johnny Depp. Clearly The Secret doesn't work.
But my mum gave it a crack anyway.
Traditionally, when a kid leaves home it then becomes known as the Spare Room right? Or at best, say, "Michelle's old room"?
My mum 'Secret-ed' the shit out of this tradition and simply started calling my room 'the spare room'. While I was still living there.
This clearly confused people. "Oh, I'll just put this stuff in Michelle's room" and my mum would be quick to jump in with, 'that is the spare room, you'll be putting that stuff in the spare room'.
Her strategy wasn't a great success.
So she upgraded it to GENERAL PURPOSE SPARE ROOM.
She took the bed out, put in a computer, a bean bag, a keyboard, and a drum kit (none of us can play the drums).
Points for positive thinking and visualisation right?
What did your parents do to try and get you to move out?
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