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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
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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: empty nests
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Common sense rules of understanding for the adult child who moves back home.
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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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There’s a special angst when we are too up close and personal about our grown kid’s struggles to find their footing in the adult world of work.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the mother of five grown children, on the feel of a newly emptied nest.
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Our grown kids are moving back home at a new and faster pace. The economy may not be to blame.
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We are not alone in doling out financial help to our 20- and 30-somethings. The Brits do it for even longer.
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Reflections on how sudden–and scary–is the reality of children grown up and on their own.
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Two counter-intuitive reasons or explanations for why young adults are returning home to live: the guilty parties are the Internet and demographics
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