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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.
Category: vacationing with grown children
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NextAve has pulled together a package of suggestions on vacationing with grown kids and grand kids. It includes my six tips on surviving the joys of togetherness.
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Changing of the guard: When dinner is at a grown kid’s house, we’re no longer in charge of the what we’ll talk about.
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Ways and means to keep the mood upbeat when vacationing with grownkids and their families.
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Traveling with grown children and their children can be challenging, but the excitement of adventure may be just around the corner.
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We look forward to vacations with our children and their children, but there can be as many perils as there are pleasures.
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There’s a difference between acknowledging a grown child’s request for parent- and sibling-free vacation time and comprehending the reasons behind it.
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We worry about them. We get angry at them. Our grown children sometimes do things that disappoint, exorcise or frustrate us. And then, all of a sudden, they're there when we need them. They're the caring, mature, responsible people we always knew–hoped–they would be. Two friends just went through difficult experiences. What struck me was…
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"Why do we do it?" This is the question I pose my walking buddy. Why do we invite, look forward to, and lay elaborate plans to have our grown children–and their children–join us for a vacation? I'm asking her because she, like me, admits to having pre-trip anxiety. Some of those anxieties revolve around the…
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Midway through our family vacation in Vermont, the Grands put on a magic show. As dusk fell, we adults–Paterfamilias and I, Uber son and wife, Alpha daughter and husband–sat inside and nursed our wines and hot teas. The Grands were outside on the lawn plotting and putting together a grand extravaganza for us. As darkness…
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Lots of us do it–we rent a big vacation house with lots of bedrooms and access to entertaining things to do and we fill it with our grown children and their families or significant others or important friends. The idea is always the same: to relax and enjoy down time with our nearest and…
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