Category: empty nests
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when the grown kids move back home, it’s no easier for them than it is for you. some tips on easing the pain.
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Some parents say they stand and cheer when the last kid leaves the nest. Some of us get a bit testy. Even weepy. Here's a poem I read recently that brought a huge lump to my throat–and my kids left the nest years ago. It's by Mary Leader and I read it in Garrison Keillor's…
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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.
