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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: detachment parenting
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Don Johnson says he advises his grown children to heed Joseph Campbell’s dictum: find your bliss and follow it.
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The stories people tell suggest we’re the worst, most interfering parents EVER when it comes to our grown children. Does the data tell the same story?
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When an adult child is seriously ill, we struggle with his need for independence and our need to guide him through key decisions.
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We can interfere in our grown children’s lives if we do it very carefully and cautiously.