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Category: talking to adult children

Parenting Grown Children: Or are they starting to parent us?

01/16/2018

As our kids reach an age of acquired wisdom, it may feel like they’re parenting us rather than vice versa.
Parenting Grown Daughters: What did we see when we saw “Lady Bird” ?

01/06/2018

Lady Bird is a jolt of remembrance about our mother-daughter relationship–with our mothers, with our daughters or both.