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: letting go
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There’s a special angst when we are too up close and personal about our grown kid’s struggles to find their footing in the adult world of work.
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Advice for dealing with grown children when we don’t like the decisions they’re making.
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An author and researcher reflects on two great pulls for parents of adult children–staying involved and letting go.:
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An American Buddhist nun has words of wisdom that apply to our hopes and desires for our grown children–their careers, their life styles, their appearance and everything else they say and do.
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Cartoonist William Hamilton’s take on parenting adult children
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Reflections on how sudden–and scary–is the reality of children grown up and on their own.
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Don Johnson says he advises his grown children to heed Joseph Campbell’s dictum: find your bliss and follow it.
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The stories people tell suggest we’re the worst, most interfering parents EVER when it comes to our grown children. Does the data tell the same story?
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Even the famously glamorous feel the poignancy of adjustment when their children grow into independent adults.
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