I am in my mid forties and have five children. I live with my fiancee and three of my children belong to him. My two oldest belong to my ex-husbanc who passed away. My oldest daughter is 23 and has a great head on her shoulders, has been on her own about a month after she graduated from high school, she had a job during school and full time for a year then went on to get an Associates degree along with working at the same time, and now she is still on her own and doesn't worry about having a boyfriend right now. My oldest son,20 years old, took a year off after graduating from high school before starting a traded school TriAngle Tech which he graduate with a degree in carpentery. My middle daughter, 19 years old, quit school due to a lot of problems with teachers, office personel, and other kids is living at home and depending on mom and dayd right now. My youngest son, 17 years old, just got his license and a car, this is his last year in high school but he is also working after school, he had a job since last year and is thinking about going onto futher his education. My youngest daughter  is 9 years old and thinks she is miss know it all. She thinks that the whole world should revolve around her and she should get her own way all the time. We are trying to break her of that status and it doesn't  help that she has older siblings that help spoil her rotten. I am a stay at home mom and an assistant girl scout leader for my daughter's troop. My fiancee works full time on second shift at a place here near home. I don't mind being a full time stay at home mom but I do have my quarks about a few things. My children that stay at home right now could help me clean the house instead of depending on me to do all the house work. I have health problems that only allow me to do so much and my kids know that but the house chores are still up to me. There are days when I do exploded and tell them they need to help  because I am now on strike. It does work when you tell them that your on strike than things do get done because I refuse to do anything any more. I also swear that my fiancee is worse than the kids because he doesn't do much either around the house unless I exploded on him.  I do beleive that men are worse than the kids all around.