Ok, one last little bit of hard-earned wisdom about the power of laughter in the parent-adult child system, especially around the volatile holiday season. One Christmas I ruined everything by trying too hard. WAY too hard … My daughter was bringing home a new boyfriend. My brother and his family were coming for Christmas Eve […]

Getting to the end of this little blog journey through my Top 10 List for Parents of Adult Children … Point #2 is Laugh. Simple, right? Not so simple from my experience … One of the very first things to go when parents and adult kids start to tangle is our sense of humor. Rather […]

I have been thinking lately about why it is often so hard for adult kids and their parents to be kind to each other. Of course if we have not practiced kindness during the early years of family life, it is hard to all of a sudden become kind. It can be done, of course, […]

"I become more and more certain, as the years go by, that wherever friendship is destroyed, or homes are broken, or precious ties are severed, there is a failure of imagination. Someone is too intent on justifying himself, or herself, never venturing out to imagine the way things seem to the other person. Imagination is […]

Back to the Top 10 List for Parents of Adult kids … #3 on my list was Be Kind. There is so much to be said about kindness, especially in our families. And it is a mystery to me why it is often so hard to be kind to those who are closest to us. […]

If I start to become a safe person for my young adult kids to talk to about faith … we may end up having some really great conversations, especially if I do more listening than talking. Especially if I ask curious, friendly, open-ended questions and then shut my mouth and open my ears. But what […]