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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: leaving a legacy
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When a grown child needs financial support, you can make sure there are no interruptions if you’re no longer here.
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Don’t scrimp on your retirement spending in order to leave money to the grown kids. They don’t want it or expect it–or so the studies say.
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Thank you http://afterthekidsleave.com for this William Morris downsizing reminder: “Keep nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” Or that your kids will want.
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A financial assist for an adult child can still keep your estate whole for the rest of the heirs.
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PowerPoint, iPhone apps and Facebook can help us share our wisdom with the ages–and delight our grown children when we’re gone.
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Sharing the adventure of travel with grownchildren and Grands–not just now but through the ages.
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For those of us who started our journalism careers during the Mad Man era, Jill Abramson’s firing is a reminder to remind our grown children how far we have to go and how far we’ve come.
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We leave our grown children valued items and mementos. Do we also want to leave them the unsorted junk in our closets?
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Some tips on estate planning that can minimize the emotional upheaval after we’re gone.
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When our adult children or grandchildren get interested in writing about our lives, how much input do we have into how our legacy-legend gets spun?
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