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Category: moving near grown children

Our Children, Our Bosses: A change in the dynamics of who’s taking charge of whom.

10/26/2022

Friends of ours just returned from four weeks in Italy. Days of sunshine. Mornings with una tazza di caffè. So delightful. They stayed at a four-story house their son and his family have rented: Their daughter-in-law was appointed to a prestigious job at an international agency headquartered in Rome and so the family relocated. What…
Covid Seniors: Are our adult kids still trying to be our parents?

07/20/2022

Some of us whose adult children are now of sandwich-generation age–-meaning their teen- and 20-something kids are becoming independent while their parents are evolving toward ancient–have a "take control" attitude toward their parents. It may be a hangover from the Covad pandemic. Back in those bad old days, a good number of adult kids, seeing…
Post Pandemic Equation: A new calculus for moving closer to the kids

02/22/2022

Pre-pandemic, my yoga class ended the "semester" with a dinner out together–beer, pizza, mellow discussions among mostly women who knew little about each other than their down dog limitations. The subject turned to adult kids and how tied we are to them. More specifically, the question was raised about whether, if your children live in…