Category: emerging adulthood
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A 20-something in my family texted to check on his great grandparents’ emigration paths: Had my mother come here from Poland and when? How about my dad? Poland or Russia? The flurry of interest had little to do with the tracing of roots. He’s doing what a growing number of Gen Zers are busying themselves…
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They’re back. Damp towels on the floor, dishes in the kitchen sink, eyes trained on iPhones. Our young adult kids are coming home and moving into their old bedrooms or our basements. It’s a trend that’s accelerating.: Nearly half — 44 percent — of U.S. parents with adult children ages 18 to 35 say a…
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Okay. So Gen Z kids are living under the parental roof again and in greater numbers and percentages than our generation did at their age. I wrote about that in my previous post. The reasons are mostly economic–housing costs are high; they're saving money for their future. The good news from a Pew Research survey…
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Our Gen Z kids are nestling into their old bedrooms, sleeping in our basements or otherwise making themselves at home in our homes. The post-college life is unfolding under the parental roof. It isn't just our kids here in the U.S. Parents in other first-world countries are finding their 20-somethings–and even 30s–reversing trends and coming…
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We've all heard about the midlife crisis and how, midway through our lives, we question ourselves about the road we've taken, whether this is all there is to life and other existential questions. It's a period of transition where we may struggle with our identity and self-confidence. This is old news. The new deal I'm…
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In an interview with Laurence Steinberg, NPR reporter A Martinez asked the psychology professor about challenges we parents face in dealing with our 20-something adult children–children who should be more independent than they are or than we were at their age. Here's Steinberg's observation. STEINBERG: Parents don't fully understand how hard it is to be…
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In an essay for the Washington Post's Parenting column (The graduation speech we should be giving to parents), author Mary Laura Philpott puts into perspective what lies ahead for soon-to-be empty nesters. The exact circumstances have been different for all of us, but among my friends, we’ve experienced countless surprises after our kids reached legal…
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Best if we had started when our kids were teens but it's never too late to remember that we have moved from being the boss of them to being consultants to our grown children–even as it's hard to act on that in the heat of a "moment." This is what Amy Joyce wrote about in…
