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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: holidays and adult children
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'Tis the season to receive Thank You notes. The present-giving is behind us. If we weren't present at the gift-opening moments–and that's true for those of us who live far from our children or whose children are spending their holidays elsewhere–we may be waiting for the snail-mail delivery of a much-desired handwritten Thank You note.…
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We are alone for the Holidays. Our children and grandchildren are elsewhere. This is the fallout from having children who marry spouses whose families have holiday traditions they want to honor with their presence. When our children were young, our tradition was to escape the hoopla and take the family skiing. But our children are…
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Why say it again. Here's a re-run from a year or two ago about the sweetness and the challenges of a "one big happy family" Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a family get-together favorite–for the most part. It's easy because there are no gifts, decorations or other "extras" to drive everyone to hyperventilate. It's fun…
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An email from a friend arrived in my inbox this week. He was soliciting advice. Here's his question. Our older son notified us by text that he and his wife could come over for Easter Sunday dinner. We dutifully dropped $50 on primo lamb chops, wild rice, asparagus, a freshly baked pie, and a six-pack…
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A little yoga workout forges the warmth of a special tie with a grandchild.
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Remembering the highs and lows of having grown kids and their families home for the holiday.
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Letting the “fullness of our wisdom” shine at holiday dinners with our grown children..
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The return on a spending investment may be as high or higher than an investment account that saves for the future.
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