Fire your kids

If your kids are grown and still depend on you and drive you nuts, admit your failure to produce self-sufficient kids and tell them where to get food stamps. Changing the locks helps.

Fire your parents

If you can easily provide and care for aging parents in your home, and if everybody is happy doing that, there is no problem. If you're trapped between small children and the needs of aging parents, you face tough decisions that must be made for the good of all. If your Mom or Dad is merely a pain in a bad place, fire him or her. Don't let parents work emotional blackmail on you unless, of course, you like classic Greek tragedy or soap operas.