Reply #7: Kids come, kids go

[ginnyinWI]

It's been a revolving door for us, too. Now that the older two are out on the West coast, perhaps they are gone for good...they're both married, after all! But still-- the eldest was here last summer with her husband for a month...before the move West.

They say people in our kids' generation are taking a lot longer to become independent financially than we did--because it is simply so much harder. While we may have been out on our own in our early twenties, this group is taking until their late twenties. I tell my kids not to feel bad, because they are all in the same boat in these economic times. And I tell my brothers not to beat up on their kids for not being out on their own as early as they were.