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- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
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- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
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- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
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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: letting go
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A blogger comments on what she learned about parenting a grown child from a movie, 5 to 7, about a young man’s unusual love affair.
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We can interfere in our grown children’s lives if we do it very carefully and cautiously.
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Detachment parenting means letting go of our ideals about how our kids “turn out”–and not harping on our disappointments if they aren’t living up to our expectations.
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Novelist Alice McDermott writes graceful observations about the empty nest and about the way parents back off from the control mode.
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Visiting grown children at their workplace? Hoping to meet their boss and co-workers? It’s not a great idea.
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It’s so hard to let go when our adolescent kids are launched into adulthood. But cheer up. Their independence is a measure of our success.
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We can have their back when they job hunt, but can they become independent adults if we’re out front micro-managing the launch of their careers?
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It helps to keep a sense of humor–and perspective–about any tug-of-war arguments.”Laughing at oneself as a parent,” a psychologist writes, “can lighten the challenges involved, and can keep undue seriousness at bay.”
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We may think we’re parents who are giving our grown children lots of leeway to be independent adults. Here are some warning signs that this might not be the case.
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A political columnist share his trauma when he drove his eldest son to college and took his leave of him–a ritual similar to the first day of kindergarten but more riveting.
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