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recent posts
- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
- Gifting and Getting: A wish list for gifts from grandkids
- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
- Money Matters: Data on how the Bank of Mom and Dad is doing?
- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
© Penelope Lemov and Parenting Grown Children, 2025. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given.
Category: Advice from adult kids
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I was invited to a pool party. It was last minute. Casual. A text read, "You are invited to pool dip and also dinner tomorrow Saturday night here. Come anytime afternoon. Cupla folks you'll like." I went into panic mode. I would know no one but the host–an editor I'd met years ago during my…
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Friends of ours just returned from four weeks in Italy. Days of sunshine. Mornings with una tazza di caffè. So delightful. They stayed at a four-story house their son and his family have rented: Their daughter-in-law was appointed to a prestigious job at an international agency headquartered in Rome and so the family relocated. What…
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A funny thing has happened on our way to becoming older parents: We may find that our grown kids have acquired wisdom and good sense. And now, as we age into our more senior adult years, they share their gravitas with us (though some of their over-protective counsel during Covid was a bit overbearing as…
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Governor Andrew Cuomo, photo Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Our son is on the phone again. "Are you doing Take Out for dinner?" he asks. We are. "Don't go into the restaurant" he tells us. "Have it delivered." We are looking forward to the short drive to the restaurant. It's what passes for…
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Seth Meyers says it best:Grown kids want support from their parents. Not advice.
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As our kids reach an age of acquired wisdom, it may feel like they’re parenting us rather than vice versa.
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Calvin Trillin looks at that tipping point where the kids we once counseled and advised become our counselors, advisors and protectors.
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