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- 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.
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We text our grown children photos of us in Morocco. Their responses keep us connected despite the distance.
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A mother-daughter yoga bond highlights the flexibility and evolving nature of a mother-daughter relationship.
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Spending time alone with a teenage grand has its own and meaningful rewards.
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Just when we thought we were getting used to the re-filled nest–our college kids moving back for a few months or even years–comes now a reversal. No, it's not that they are moving out of our homes. It's that we're moving into their's. The trend today, the research reports tell us, is for aging parents…
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We may only be as happy as our unhappiest child, but their unhappiness can cause us even deeper woes–or so a new study reports.
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As parents, our grown kids face different pressures and challenges than we did in raising them–and they have different mind-sets as well.
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A former Stanford Dean observes the effect helicopter parenting has on college students. It’s not good.
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Fran Lebowitz comments on our collegial relationship with our children and its effect on their lack of revolutionary fervor.
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A mom tells all: What her grown kids told her about how to be good parent to them now.
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