Lucky for her I'm not agressive

[Raven]

proud of your rationality GS Bravo

[FishermanTim]

I agree.

I have been giving my nieces and nephews bits of wisdom, not like I'm some guru, but rather things to avoid that I and my siblings should have avoided in our youth.

Straight talk, not sugar coated, and I can only hope some of it sticks. The world is a lot crazier than when we were young, and you don't usually "bounce back" from the mistakes being made today!
(You usually end up in jail or in a grave!)

[Got Stripers]

It's so frustrating to watch, knowing that at 28 with only two years of minimum wage job experience behind him and still not even motivated enough to get a drivers license; he is so far behind where he should be.

I mean should be, because he is a smart kid, but he is allowed by his mother to just live in the very small bubble he exists in. The more I want to give him advice or her criticism for not pushing him, the less I hear from him and the farther behind the 8-ball he gets.

I've suggested a tech school to take is computer gaming skills in a direction of a IT career, but my advice just falls on deaf ears. You don't give up the desire to parent after they move out; it doesn't get any easier.