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Category: emerging adulthood
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I am having lunch with a friend when I ask about her son, one year out of college: Did he get the job he was applying for? As far as she knew, the answer was no. Or possibly, not yet. Her son, she says, is incommunicado on the subject of job hunting. She's tried to…
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The Great Recession has upped the amount of support parents are giving their grown children–and the percentage of parents being called on to do so.
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Tough economic setting for college grads looking for jobs.
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When our kids feign indifference to job hunting, it doesn’t mean they are slackers. Many parents are helping to support their kids through the hard economic times.
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How to deal with “inappropriate situations” –such as a stoned girlfriend–when a son moves back home.
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There comes a moment when we realize: it’s time to take our hands off the controls of our grown children’s lives.
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It’s a sign of success that our role as parents of grown children feels like a demotion. It is: Our kids can stand on their own feet and make good decisions on their own.
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It’s a slippery slope between finding evidence that your grown child possesses something illegal and bring an intrusive snoop.
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A few weeks ago I posted a blog on how to talk to an 8-year-old. It got a lot of response, and I learned a whole litany of questions to use to get a conversation going, questions that were not conversation stoppers. (Case in point: "How's school?") It's a little more complicated with an 18-year-old,…
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