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parenting blog, memoir notes, family punchlines & more
recent posts
- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
- Gifting and Getting: A wish list for gifts from grandkids
- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
- Money Matters: Data on how the Bank of Mom and Dad is doing?
- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
© Penelope Lemov and Parenting Grown Children, 2025. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given.
recent posts
- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
- Gifting and Getting: A wish list for gifts from grandkids
- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
- Money Matters: Data on how the Bank of Mom and Dad is doing?
- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
© Penelope Lemov and Parenting Grown Children, 2025. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given.
Category: emerging adulthood
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It’s so hard to let go when our adolescent kids are launched into adulthood. But cheer up. Their independence is a measure of our success.
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Research suggests that how we view helicopter parenting may be related to our cultural roots and to our assessment of the maturity and happiness quotient of our grown child. Even when it’s appropriate, though, we need to keep it in check.
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We can have their back when they job hunt, but can they become independent adults if we’re out front micro-managing the launch of their careers?
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Our young adults are afraid to take on student debt, and no wonder: The burden is increasingly awesome–and not in a good way.
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A curmudgeon share five tips for post-college demeanor in the workplace.
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We worry about our college grads finding a career job–and we also worry that they’re worried about it too.
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Six little resolutions to bring joy and a bouyant relationship with grown children.
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It helps to keep a sense of humor–and perspective–about any tug-of-war arguments.”Laughing at oneself as a parent,” a psychologist writes, “can lighten the challenges involved, and can keep undue seriousness at bay.”
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