Category: emerging adulthood
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By the time they're 22, our children should be financially independent. It's a milestone most of us think they should reach as young adults. At least, that's what a survey by the Pew Research Center finds. The reality (now it's U.S. Census analysis doing the finding) is that only a quarter of today's 22-year-olds have…
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There's helicopter parenting an adult child and there's Extreme Helicoptering of our post-adolescence offspring. Neither is healthy but the latter can be especially harmful. Extreme helicopter parents have been sited accompanying their adult children to job interviews and barging into the interview itself. (It does not leave an employer with a positive impression of the…
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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.
