Working my way through my Top 10 List for parenting young adults ... #9 is Be Honest, meaning parents of young adults can be really helpful to our kids by being appropriately honest with them about our own struggles, confusion, bad choices and mistakes as we navigated the turbulent waters of young adulthood ourselves. There […]

I am working my way through the Top 10 List I created for a sermon I gave recently on parenting adult kids. Last week on my blog, I spent a few days working through point #10 which was "Make The Transition," and today I am going to ponder #9 for a bit, which is "Be […]

I think it was Teresa of Avila who said: "Comparison is the death of the spiritual life." Regardless of who first spoke these words, they are both brilliant and painfully true. Especially when it comes to making the transition from parenting teenagers to parenting adults. Each person makes that transition in their own way and […]

When my son was about 16 he did his best to let me know he had had enough ... Enough of me constantly checking on his classwork through the satanic program that allows parents of high school students to check in on their student's daily assignments, homework and test scores. I refused to give up. […]

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. I remember reading this quote from the psychologist Carl Jung when I was in the messy midst of parenting three teenagers. I had been conflicted all of my parenting years about working outside the […]

Point #10 in my Top 10 List for Parenting Adult Children is "Make the Transition." By this I mean that both the becoming-an-adult child and the becoming-the-parent-of-an-adult-child parent must gradually, slowly, in fits and starts, make the transition from the stage of overt parenting to the stage where the parent plays more of a consultant […]