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.
Category: helicopter parents
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Sixty may be the new forty, but our kids aren’t the age they were when we were in our 40s. In short, we’re no longer in control of their lives and decisions.
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When I was growing up, some of my friends had over-protective parents–parents who marched over to school if a low grade or negative report was sent about their child, parents who labored with their children over the homework or had their kids call home every hour or so if they went out with friends for…
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I came across this to-do (and not-to-do ) list for parenting grown children. It was compiled by a mother (Candelaria Silva) with two grown children in their 30s who are still, Silva reports, "talking to me–unbidden." I was particulaly taken with a birthday card she sent each child on that child's 30th birthday. It was…
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A lawyer friend is a high-powered, type-A attorney who's a very effective attack dog for his clients. The problem is, he sometimes applies that take-no-prisoners approach to his children's lives. Case in point: When his grown daughter had a big report due to the president of her company, he told her she should stop accepting…
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A few weeks ago I posted a blog on how to talk to an 8-year-old. It got a lot of response, and I learned a whole litany of questions to use to get a conversation going, questions that were not conversation stoppers. (Case in point: "How's school?") It's a little more complicated with an 18-year-old,…
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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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As a generation, we are more generous with our 20-somethings than our parents were with us. In so doing, we’re in lock-step with an emerging trend that recognizes the early 20s as “emerging adulthood,” a stage in development that comes right after adolescence.
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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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