Home Alone may be a hit holiday movie, but in our homes, the kids definitely want (or need) company, with one notable exception. A survey of social workers says 12 is the magic age [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191025075904.htm]. We say one size never fits all. Mentioned: Parenting horror movies we made up [https://www.parentingroundaboutpodcast.com/blog/grab-bag-zombie-skillz-and-parenting-chills], and a terrifying real one starring Sally Field [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116260/].

In appearance, in temperament, in lying-down-in-a-dark-room-with-a-wet-rag-over-your-eyes anxiety, we all take after one or the other of our parents. Find out which side of the tree our apple doesn't fall too far from, and then tell us who you take after

Is your clan starting to look like something from "Modern Family"? Are you close to aunts and uncles and cousins and siblings, or happy staying as far away from any feud fodder as you can? Are your friends more your family than your family? We have an extended talk about extended family.

On this week’s Roundabout Roundup, Terri's thankful for the cloud's magic ability to make her life easier, while Nicole's praising Costco Travel for saving her money on car rentals [https://www.costcotravel.com/Rental-Cars]. And Catherine enjoyed the mother-daughter movie Where'd You Go, Bernadette [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2365580/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1] (she also talked up the book on a 2015 Round 2 episode [https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18923320]).

Inspired by John and Sherry at Young House Love Has a Podcast [https://www.younghouselove.com/podcast-155/], we discuss the Rule of Age 10, which posits that your youthful obsessions can identify your calling in life. Turns out, this rule might be right on.

With the 2010s coming to an end, everyone's talking about the bests of the decade. We, of course, had to talk about this topic our way: By complaining about parenting trends that trouble and annoy us. Mentioned: Our episode on college reveal events [https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18922238]—and happy birthday to us!

NBC made Making It into a two-week-long "event" instead of a season, and the show felt overpackaged. But we still enjoyed watching creative makers make things. Mentioned: The Extra Hot Great podcast discussion of the season [https://www.extrahotgreat.com/280]. On The West Wing's "Requiem," we said goodbye to both Leo McGarry and John Spencer, with lovely tributes both on the episode and on the West Wing Weekly podcast [http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/718]. And here's the ID on the mystery pallbearer at the funeral [https://westwing.fandom.com/wiki/Requiem].

Sure, there are things we can (and probably really should) teach our grown and nearly-grown kids how to do. But then we'd be out of a job, and we kind of like this parenting gig.

A while back we talked on a Speed Round about places we'd like to visit, and thinking a little more along those lines, we share some other things we'd like to do before it's too late, from education to travel to all being in the same room. Do you have a bucket list?

Is moving away from home an absolute rite of young adulthood that we must force our kids to engage in above all else? Or can we give the kids a break and let them stay in the nest while they struggle to get started in a crummy job market? We share our own movin' out stories and wonder what's next for our kids.