Moving on the #7 of my Top 10 List for Parents of Adult Kids … #7 - No Guilt! Parents, do not make your adult children feel guilty about how much time they spend with you. Guilt never works. It almost always creates the opposite of the desired outcome. Trying to induce guilt is a […]
One final thought about listening in the journey of parenting adult kids … Carl Rogers, a great twentieth century psychotherapist wrote: "The great majority of us cannot listen; we find ourselves compelled to evaluate, because listening is too dangerous. The first requirement is courage, and we do not always have it." Why are we tempted […]
Some more thoughts on #8 of my Top 10 List for Parenting Young Adults … #8 Listen Now, here's the truth: We parents of young adults have some wisdom; the hard-earned kind, the kind that comes from livin' life. It is a good thing to want to share some of that wisdom with the humans […]
Still working my way through my top 10 list about parenting young adults … Now, turning my attention to point #8 - Listen (or try to become a good listener) This seems to me, based on conversations I had after my teaching on this topic, to be one of the hardest things for parents of […]
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” (Mary Karr)
One last bit of writing on point #9 in my Top 10 List for Parenting Adult Children … Be Honest. Be honest with your adult children about failures, struggles, mistakes and confusion from your own life journey. It helps them to not feel so alone or lost as they navigate the rough waters of young […]
