Category: emerging adulthood
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My friend Carol and I are starting out on a walk-and-talk when she blurts out this admission: "I'm a nervous wreck." Carol is normally a no-nonsense, assertive person; her remark is out of keeping with her hard-driving persona. The reason for the agita? Her 23-year-old son–he who graduated from a top college and has just…
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A friend, whose 23-year-old son has been looking for a job for six months now, has been through several stages of search anguish. He's a graduate of a top college where he got good grades. Last year, a long search brought forth a one-year, low-paying internship with a nonprofit group. That ended in August. He…
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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.
