Stewart Dowling wrote:AllyG, Are you kids still indahouse?
Stewart,
Congratulations on being 'fully fledged'! Perhaps you should celebrate this, instead of worrying about being old :D
My older daughter is 22 and at university in London, but she will come home for a few days at Christmas. She is living off her student loan, plus grants, plus a few handouts from us. She tells me now that she wants to do a Masters degree, which I think is a good thing, but it means that it will be another year before she can get a job. So she's not fully fledged yet.
My younger daughter is only 16 and at school, so she is still totally dependant on us, but already she thinks she knows far more than me, and keeps trying to boss me about. But all being well she will be off to uni in just under 2 years time.
I do know quite a few people who still live at home when they are in their 30's, mainly for economic/housing shortage reasons. But once they get paired up and have kids they usually leave :D
Jenno, I think flogging went out with keel-hauling etc :D. You will have to find a more cunning method of getting your kids to leave the nest when the time comes, if they are too comfortable there and not inclined to shift.
Of course, the next stage is having to look after one's own parents, when they become too old to manage on their own. And some poor unfortunates have to look after their own young kids and their parents at the same time.
Anyway, I think we need to get back to ski-ing now. Quite a lot of elderly people still ski, which I think is why you have to be over 75 years old in the 3 Valleys, before you can have a free lift pass.
I am not worried about the snow reports for my own holiday because we're not going until feb half-term, and I'm sure there will be plenty of snow about by then.
Ally