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Category: refilled nests

Empty Nests: When you don’t really want them to move back home

09/04/2019

This is the emptying nest season. A lot of our kids have left for college and parents are wistful and lump-in-throat sad to see their empty place at the kitchen table. We wish they were still youngsters living under our roof. Or so we think. But four years hence, we may not be so thrilled…
Refilled Nests: When Boomerangers come back, we don’t like it.

05/03/2018

We may feel sad when our kids leave home, but even worse if they boomerang back.
Observation: Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond on supporting grown kids financially

04/23/2018

We give our kids a gift when we let them struggle to be financially independent.
Parenting Millennials: Why they aren’t moving out and about the country the way we did

04/21/2017

Millennials ought to be moving out and about the country just like we did, but pocketbook issues may be keeping them closer to home.
Refilled Nests: Setting rules when a grownchild moves back home

02/02/2017

Common sense rules of understanding for the adult child who moves back home.