Category: empty nests
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The semester is almost over. The students who went off to college as overgrown teens are heading home for the summer as adults. A friend's son, after two years of struggling with college courses, is coming home for the duration–to figure out what he'll do next, what he wants out of life, whether further schooling…
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They're moving home again. Sixty percent of young adults move back home–staying for no one knows how long. The rules of the house that worked so well when they were youngsters don't quite apply now. So how do you work things out? Do you ask them to pay rent, lay down cleaning and cooking rules?…
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We all have our markers for recognizing that our children have grown up and left the nest–taken that giant step into independence. I don't mean when they leave for college, although that's usually the first most common step along the way. I mean a way of noting that great big void in our lives. In…
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There are mixed emotions over having your grown child–a recent college grad–move back home. Others are going through it, too.
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We are not just our parents all over again. We rule. The majority of families in the U.S. today do not have young children at home, according to a the most recent population survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. Compare that with our parents' generation: In the early 1960s, almost 60 percent of families had…
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We all talk about how hard it is on us when the kids move back home. And it is. The loss of privacy. The noise. The eating habits. The hours they keep. But here's a reminder that it's hard on them, too. These are words of self-awareness written to give the grown children some perspective:…
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We are living through difficult times–kids moving back home not just because they're out of college and haven't figured out what they'll do. It's more serious now: Our grown children are losing their jobs, or we're losing ours. Consolidated households are one answer. On her site, Linda Pogue blogs about some of the hidden costs…
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No less a source than Newsweek is tackling the empty nest syndrome. They start off with this good-news phenomenon: "Rather than feeling bereft without kids, many couples find themselves swept up in what's commonly known as a second honeymoon after their kids leave. There's even scientific backing for the notion that a marriage gets a…
