PenPenWrites
parenting blog, memoir notes, family punchlines & more
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.
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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Answering the question grownandflown raises: What’s one of your greatest unexpected pleasures in parenting grown children?
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We all love our children. Some of us go overboard and adore them. Is there harm in that?
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Oh the woes others reap when we fail to crack down on our children’s laundry upbringing.
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Mother’s and Father’s days may be Hallmark moments, but it’s still moving when we hear from our grown kids.
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If you’ve got a 27-year-old in your life, here’s how their work, study and love lives measure up against their peers.
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What makes for a great visit to grown children who live far away? Independence: the ability to get out and around without your children as your constant guide.
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Ah the guilt when a daughter-in-law is frustrated by your son’s messy ways–and you know you’re to blame.
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We all procrastinate but emerging adults–aka our unemployed college grads–may have a worse case of it.
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Communication with our grown children is important but that doesn’t mean we have to share every anxiety and woe over our own lot or their’s.
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