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The beauty of being 18 is your life is wide open, full of choices. You have the ability to be 100% free from any parental rules, if you want. Move out, pay all your bills, no one can tell you what to do.
But if you are going to count on your parents for support, IMO you are not entitled to 100% freedom. You can't expect to be a full adult for the purposes you want, but still a child for purposes when it suits you. The world just doesn't work that way.
That is *especially* true when you are living under the parental roof, IMO. An 18 year old still living at home is a guest, and all guest should respect the house rules.
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+1.
Turning 18 in my parents house made no changes. Not for me, not for my sisters. After 18 years, I knew the rules of the house. Those rules didn't disappear because I had a birthday.
Our job as parents is not to prepare a path for our children. Our job is to prepare our children for the path they will face when we're not around.
A big part of preparing our children is for them to know that actions have concequences.