1. You’d rather make yourself late for work than miss an opportunity to send him off to his job in a crisply ironed shirt.
2. You’ve told him to do his own laundry, but somehow find yourself stripping his sheets and line-drying them so they smell extra nice.
3. You make the roaring hot, spicy curry he adores, even though you can’t stand it and it makes your lips burn for hours afterwards.
4. Yawning, baggy-eyed and weary, you wait up way past your bedtime just for the chance to have a 10-minute catch up when he rolls in.
5. You attempt to take an intelligent interest in hip-hop.
6. You proudly post pictures of him sunbathing in the garden.
7. He pays rent (it’s good for him to realise that life costs…) but you’re secretly stashing it in a high-interest account and are looking forward to presenting him with a chunky lump sum when he’s thinking about getting his own place.
Victoria Beckham with son, Brooklyn.
8. On the other hand, you make life at home so comfortable there’s really no incentive for him to leave.
9. He likes to go shopping with you because, despite all his half-hearted protests, you can’t resist treating him to a pair of jeans and a couple of decent quality t-shirts.
10. You buy a puppy. If that doesn’t pin him down, what will?
11. There are more pictures of him in the photo album, more hours of video footage, and more posts about his achievements than of anyone else in the family. Although the puppy is now running a close second…
12. You can’t help laughing when you know you should be telling him off, because he misbehaves in such an entertaining way. You see him as cheeky and playful, rather than stroppy and argumentative (along with the 90% of mums surveyed by Netmums in 2010 who admitted they were more critical of their daughters).
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