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parenting blog, memoir notes, family punchlines & more
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- 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: holidays and adult children
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The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cahtleen Schine offers a wry but dagger-like observation of what it’s like when our children grow up and move into their adult lives.
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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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Our family is together for the Thanksgiving feast: Paterfamilias and I, Uber Son and his family, Alpha daughter and hers. We are gathered together at Uber Son's house–we all live in different cities and his is centrally located, big enough to fit us all in and require the least amount of airplane flights. There is…
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A novelist captures the mixed emotions of having children grow up and leave the nest. Her main character, the owner of hardware store,feels empty without his four sons around. It is a sadness that trails around with him.
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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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