PenPenWrites
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.
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Every piece of advice you've read tells you the same thing: Don't interfere with your grown children's parenting of their children. And we don't. But oh how close we can come to making the fatal error. It's tough to sit and watch discipline in action. This is especially true for those of us who live…
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Have you read Olive Kitteredge? Do. It's all about us and our interior lives, emotions and fears–of growing older, of our children moving away, of our spouses dying or worse, losing their minds. For those of us whose grown children live in another city far from us, there's one particular story in Elizabeth Strout's series…
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A friend's daughter lives in London. She's gone and married a Britisher and has three sons–all of whom speak with a marked British accent. When she visits and they want their dessert, they ask, "May I have some pudding, please." Christopher Robin, where are you? But I digress. On her most recent visit to her…
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The latest census report and a couple of surveys hold some startling statistics for those of us with adult children: They are moving back home in force. And at mid-career–or older. Here are the numbers, starting with the younger ones: According to the most recent Census report, there were 5.1 million Americans age 25 to…
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Lucy has three children–all grown and living independently. Two live nearby. One daughter lives far away–in a third-world country where her job is first rate and so are the perks. She has two nannies for two children. So when she came home for a three-week visit–part work, part parental visit–a nanny came with her. Only…
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Whether your family comes to you or you go to them, the holidays–Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover, whatever–can be a strain on everyone. Setting aside the emotional pitfalls, there are also the day-to-day physical displeasures–beds to make, food to prepare, individual needs to cater to. That's what I found so helpful in this blog: It's full of…
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It is the Saturday after Thanksgiving and I am still peppy. Usually, at this point in the Thanksgiving weekend, I fall into bed in a state of total exhaustion. But I've just spent three days with three families under one roof [paterfamilias and I; uber son and his growing family; alpha daughter and hers]. All…
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