Some people need a little push to be responsible.
Dr. Kevin Leman, in his book Have a New Kid by Friday, shares a letter from Kari in Indiana:
“My son didn’t find a job after college, so he settled back home. Two years later, he was still at home, and it didn’t seem like he was making any effort to find a job … I’d come home to stacks of dirty dishes and Nate sitting on the couch, eating pizza.
It wasn’t until I took your principles to heart and got tough that things changed. I told him that to earn his keep, there were certain things he’d have to do around the house — and I left him a big list. I also stopped paying for cable TV and his Internet service, and I bought only the food I needed and took a stash from my pantry in to work and over to my mother’s.
His first response was shock, then anger. But after three weeks, he knew I meant business. I was asking him to stand up and be a man instead of a baby. Two weeks after that, he started job hunting and now has a job that pays for his own apartment.”
Reference: Dr. Kevin Leman, Have a New Kid by Friday (Revell, 2008), pp. 283-284
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