> Maybe I should kick them out of the house, but that gets a lot of resistance and feels like punishment to them. This is what my grandparents did to my mom an

> Maybe I should kick them out of the house, but that gets a lot of resistance and feels like punishment to them. This is what my grandparents did to my mom and aunts and uncles when they were growing up during the 60s and 70s. They weren't allowed back inside before dinner, but they had to return by sunset. They were used to it, and spent their time playing in the woods and playing games with the neighborhood kids. Nowadays, if you kicked them outside the house, they'd probably just have each other to play with, because kids don't play outside as much.