Reply To: How to respond to your eighteen-year-old teen who says this?

just explain that whenever they want to do things such as kearn in E”Y, or go to college, the institution will expect a parent contribution towards tuition and if the child refuses to work with his parents and disrespects them that it makes them less inclined to assist financially and therefore schools will not be so inclined to accepting them in the future, and that financial independence is not so simple.