# Parents (kids still at home) what is your social life like?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-kids-still-at-home-what-is-your-social-life-like/657648>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 6, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-kids-still-at-home-what-is-your-social-life-like/657648 "2013-05-06T20:25:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-kids-still-at-home-what-is-your-social-life-like/657648/21 "2013-05-07T15:21:21Z")

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It gets better as the kids get older.

My kids are of an age now when they can stay at home alone for a while, and they have their own interests (the youngest is 9) so I can have more social life now. I get together with friends for lunch, have poker night, go to a book club, etc. I think parents do a huge disservice to their kids by making everything in life about the kids. Kids need to learn a more balanced approach, and that they are not the center of the universe.

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