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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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When grown children–college age and just beyond–come home for the summer, parents are not dealing with full-blown and mature adults. Their kids are “emerging adults.”
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They are home from college, ready but not-so-wiling to start their “new life.” It’s frustrating to be their parent but a recent article suggests there’s a reason wny 20-something’s are not ready to take on the responsibilities we did at their age.
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In these hard economic times, grown kids may need to shelter in their parents’ house. Do you set a deadline for how long they’re welcome?
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When the college kids come home for the summer, they don’t complete our lives–we work, we have friends–but they do enrich them.
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There are macroeconomic implications when a grown child moves in with his parents.
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New Yorker commentary–visual and written–on college graduates who move back home.
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The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cahtleen Schine offers a wry but dagger-like observation of what it’s like when our children grow up and move into their adult lives.
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Young adults tend to move back home during tiems of war or economic crisis. Add high college debt and it’s no wonder they are moving back in droves.
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Your children have grown up and moved out. It’s okay to clear out their rooms and re-purpose them. They aren’t going to feel less welcome when they come home.
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