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Category: emerging adulthood
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Helicopter parenting has gone really bad when we horn in on their professional lives.
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The kids may have left for college and independence, but they may still need to know their old bedroom in your house secures their place in the family.
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Even one of the Worlds Most Powerful Moms has had to adjust her parenting stye to get along with her children as they became adults.
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Lady Bird is a jolt of remembrance about our mother-daughter relationship–with our mothers, with our daughters or both.
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Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite reminds her college daughter how far we’ve come, baby, and how Mary Tyler Moore helped get us here.
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The Brits put a number on how much money it costs parents if their adult children move back home.It’s not chump change.
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A brat allowance–open access to the bank of mom and dad–is not only the worst possible way to help out our grown kids financially, but it can be habit forming.
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