HELP! my youngest child will be 18 this month! do you have the same rules?

If your child is still in high school than the rules should probably stay the same until he has graduated. If he has finished high school and will be living at home while attending college, the rules should loosen up. It's still your house so you have to do what your comfortable with, but he's an adult now and he won't learn how to make adult decisions if he has to abide by rules for a teenager.

When I turned 18 I still lived in my mother's house for a long time since my birthday is in January. My rules weren't changed and I still had to respect that I was living under my mom's roof. I am now 21 out on my own in my own place but when I go home I have the same rules and respect. Talk it over with your youngest and maybe come to a common ground on what they think they should be able to do and you can set your own ground rules. We want to feel like a big kid when we're 18. I wanted freedom so bad I stupidly went out and got some stupid tattoo because I felt my mom wouldn't give me the freedom I deserved. So yeah it's not a bad idea to make them feel like they have input so maybe then they won't want to break the rules so bad. Hope that helps coming from their side on it at least.

When I was 18 I started earning an income and I had to pay part of it to Mom, as "room and board," since when my older sister was 18 she was already living on her own, paying rent outside of the house. Mom figured that people of the same age should live as they would live outside of the house, even if they still lived at home.