PenPenWrites
parenting blog, memoir notes, family punchlines & more
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.
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: being ignored
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Our sons long to spend more time at home with their kids and that may leave us lower than ever on their pay-attention pole.
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Our emerging adults may treat us with disdain, but that is not necessarily who they are or how they behave with other adults.
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Changing of the guard: When dinner is at a grown kid’s house, we’re no longer in charge of the what we’ll talk about.
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On our way home from a recent visit with Uber son–his is a family of five that lives some 350 miles away from us–Paterfamilias and I were in accord: The 2-day visit had been bittersweet. The sweetness was in the welcome when we arrived; in observing how grand our three Grands are, each in their…
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There's a special anxiety reserved for those of us with grown children. Since we're no longer in control of their health and safety–as we were when they were young and lived under our roof–when there are "threats" to their well being, we can only worry, fret, second guess, interfere and do assorted other things to…
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In May, I linked to a post on the educated grandparent blog–a post that talked about the need for those of us who are retiring from our jobs and work-day careers to make sure we develop our own interests and not live our lives through our grown children and grandchildren. No sooner had I read…
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Christmas dinner at his daughter's house: Dick was surrounded by his wife, grandchildren, son-in-law, stepsons and their families. What could be warmer and nicer for the holidays? For those of us at a certain age, plenty. Dick says that as everyone moved from the living room to the dining room for dinner, he sat down…
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It is Monday, the day after the Thanksgiving weekend and colleagues at work are chatting about the holiday–who went where, how long the left-overs lasted and, for those of us of a certain age, what it was like to have the grown kids together again under one roof. Betty's oldest son traveled home from his…
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You may think you're tiptoeing around–"Walking on Eggshells," as Jane Isay, the author of a book by that name, puts it–but that may not be how we come across. My friend Pat, who describes herself as a person who says what she thinks upfront, says that after a day of babysitting–and reporting on events to…
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