Navigation: POP Community Forums › Parenting Your Parents › Thoughts… › Reply To: Thoughts… August 29, 2014 at 8:18 pm #2966 Mary HolcombParticipant Get your adult children to help out more! They are so often free-loading and trying to call themselves responsible adults while they “look” for work and eat from our fridges. I just think they should — and can — do more to lighten my load.