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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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One family’s newly-married kids came up with a meaningful variation in the way they would split the holidays with two sets of parents.
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Redressing the gift-giving balance when our grown kids are no longer little kids.
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Some gifts we give our grown children–airline tickets to come home for the holidays–are really presents we’re giving ourselves.
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Six little resolutions to bring joy and a bouyant relationship with grown children.
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Some of us look for bragging rights about the errands we run for our adult children around holiday time. Are we doing it to make ourselves feel important or because it’s important to do?
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"Why do we do it?" This is the question I pose my walking buddy. Why do we invite, look forward to, and lay elaborate plans to have our grown children–and their children–join us for a vacation? I'm asking her because she, like me, admits to having pre-trip anxiety. Some of those anxieties revolve around the…
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When Pat and Dick's children were toddlers, their home became Christmas Holiday central. Her parents, who lived in the Midwest, came and stayed for three days. Pat's brother and sister-in-law drove down from New England, Dick's brother flew in from California. Everyone made it to the little white clapboard church across the street where Pat…
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Those of us whose grown kids live in other cities, countries or remote time zones, the holidays are a time of reunion. Somehow, we manage to get at least some of us together. Often at our home base. It feels so great to have the house filled with the noise and shuffle of our kids…
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I have been collecting Thanksgiving and Holiday Season mini-tales–what the Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday was like for friends and acquaintances. Did the whole family–the grown kids and their spouses or friends, and their families–all come together under one roof to feast at one table? Was it still their table or had the mantle passed to…
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