Though they're disapprovin' ... keep them dogies movin' ... Rawhide. This Wall Street Journal article - about getting adult children to leave home - reminds me of the classic TV theme song.
Author Joe Queenan takes as his subject matter helping the parents of millennials to get adult children to move out of the family home. His methodology: play music from your youth that your children cannot tolerate.
Queenan remembers his parents driving him out of the house by listening to Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music Makers, plus Perry Como and Patty Page. He reasons that the same technique would work for parents of millennials - playing 1960s music: Beatles, Beach Boys, Dylan, and Supremes should do the trick.
The point is to create an environment that the parents find comfortable while their children do not. One problem: since millennials have iPod buds in their ears much of the time, they may not hear the "old" music.
