Adult Children

More Alzheimer's Patients Living Alone

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Aging, Baby Boomers, Health Post50, Alzheimer's, Aging Alone, Caregivers, Adult Children, Fifty News

WASHINGTON — Elaine Vlieger is making some concessions to Alzheimer’s. She’s cut back on her driving, frozen dinners replace once elaborate cook...

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The 'Tin Can Telephone Award' This Week Goes to: Adult Children Who Don't Call Their Parents... Enough

Pat Gallagher | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Life Happens While You're Making Other Plans., Chicken Little, Phone Home, Empty Nest Syndrome, Adult Children, Post 50, Boomer Parents, Call Your Mother, Fifty News
Pat Gallagher

When my children lived at home, at least they were visible when they came out of their rooms. They had to eat.

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Letting Go Of My Son, And Getting Him Back Again

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Raising Adult Children, Parentry, 21st Birthday, Adult Children, Kids 21 Birthday, St. Patrick's Day Birthday, Kids Growing Up, Parenting, Children Growing Up, Child's Birthday, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

The 21st birthday that seemed impossibly distant back then is now here -- and with its arrival comes my realization that I have been planning for it before you and I had even met.

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How My 20-Something Children's Simple Gestures Surprised Me

Bonni Brodnick | Posted 04.29.2012

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Bonni Brodnick

When our children are young adults, do we have any place to "comment" on uncombed hair, cracked nail polish, table manners or strange outfits? Do I have the right to tell them to mind their Ps and Qs and while they're at it, pick up a brush?

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What Do Our Kids Owe Us?

Deborah Gaines | Posted 03.31.2012

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Deborah Gaines

I've seen the damage that can come from withholding love out of fear that there might not be enough go around. With our children, especially, caring needs to be its own reward.

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What Do You MEAN You're Not Going To College?

Karin Kasdin | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Higher Education, Grownup Kids, Who Should Go to College, Skipping College, Succeeding Without College, College, Alternatives to Higher Education, Getting a Job Without College Degree, Alternatives to College, Grownup Children, Adult Children, Fifty News
Karin Kasdin

A large number of our young people are wasting valuable time and money in college when they could be learning a trade, working as apprentices, becoming entrepreneurs, or working in community service.

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Why I Told My Daughter to Quit Her Job

Holly Robinson | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Salaries, Quitting a Job, Unemployment, Empty Nesters, Life Choices, Economy, Living Wage, Careers, Career Counseling, College Majors, Parenting, Business, Job Market Statistics, College Graduates, Adult Children, College News
Holly Robinson

My daughter is the poster child for why college matters. She did everything right, and lo and behold, the system worked. Slowly, though, things unraveled.

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I Still Need My Mommy ... Even at 30

Mary Kate Sheridan | Posted 03.18.2012

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Mary Kate Sheridan

Just because we're not in pigtails and OshKosh B'gosh anymore doesn't mean that we don't need some one to clean a scraped knee or scare away the ghosts under the bed.

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The Paradox Of Spending

Mary Quigley | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Living at Home, Boomerang Kids, Gen Y, Millennials, Adult Children, Parents News
Mary Quigley

What does it really cost to have a boomerang kid? Let's examine some of those necessities.

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Penn State Scandal Presents a Teachable Moment

Mary Quigley | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Morality, Penn State Scandal, Decision Making, Adult Children, Penn State, Joe Paterno Fired, Joe Paterno, Parents News
Mary Quigley

The teachable moment for us parents that Penn State drives home is the ongoing role we play to help our children make moral decisions. Most likely, our children will never be confronted with such a horrific situation. Instead they face a thousand cuts of ethical quandaries.

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Empty Nesters, Be Warned: More Young Adults Are Moving Back Home

Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Kids Moving Back Home, US Census Bureau, Boomerang Children, Living at Home, Moving-Back-Home, Empty Nest, Parenting post50, Adult Children, Young-Adults-Living-at-Home, Fifty News

In Italy, they're known as "mammone", a staple of adult men living with at home with their mothers. In the US, they're known as "losers", and they're ...

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Why 'There's No Place Like Home' For Boomerang Kids

SFGate | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Unemployment Rates, Boomerang Kids, Parenting, U.S Census Bureau, Fly the Coop, Census and Labor Department, Parenting post50, Financial Assistance, Adult Children, Fifty News

Danny Guo came marching home two years ago as a corporal from the U.S. Marine Corps, thinking the country he served would be a land of instant job opp...

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Death by Tchotchke

Susan Orlins | Posted 12.14.2011

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Susan Orlins

There would be irony in getting snuffed out by my stuff, since one of my biggest worries happens to be that I'll drop dead and my children will have the burden of sorting through everything.

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Facing An Empty Nest? Cheer Up And Rejoice

The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 12.14.2011

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You love them, sacrifice for them and root for them when no one else will -– it’s the unspoken promise of parenthood: “You are my child and I wi...

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Boomers, Butt Out of Your Adult Children's Lives

Ken Solin | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Parenting, Adult Children, Letting Go, Single Dad, Single Parents, US Marines, Empty Nesting, Fifty News
Ken Solin

So, butt out of your adult children's lives. Trust them enough to give them the latitude to become the men and women you hoped they'd be. After all, you raised them to have good values and judgment.

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That Wedding Bell Could Have Been Mother-in-Law Hell

Sally Abrahms | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Ageism, Family Weddings, Mothers-in-Law, Weddings, Parenting Parents, Adult Children, Love Post50, Fifty News
Sally Abrahms

We live in an ageist society, where old and infirm family members are often invited out of obligation, not genuine desire.

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When Parenting Your Parent Gets Tough: A Daughter's Dilemma

New York Times | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Dementia, Children, Donepezil, New Old Age, New York Times, Parenting post50, Eldercare, Parents, Adult Children, Fifty News

My mother had just completed her first physical in about seven years. The new physician was young, energetic and articulate. His respectful handling o...

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A Sunday Drive

Randi Miller | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Day Trips, Sunday Drives, Adult Children, Parents, Aging, Cemetery, Burial, Death, Family, DC News
Randi Miller

My parents and I wound our way into D.C. and my father parked the car behind some obscure but fancy little church. As we walked toward the church, my father announced that this is where they were to be buried.

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Choosing My Parents

Susan Orlins | Posted 10.16.2011

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Susan Orlins

Whenever I would leave them, my dad would say, "Oh, Sooze, it's such a short visit." He wouldn't say more, because that's the way he was. He never wanted to impose on his children.

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Why Some People Go Crazy When Their Children Get Married

May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Adult Development, Marriage, Marrying Off Children, Mother of the Bride, Adult Children, Mid-Life Crisis, Parents News
May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.

This is a moment in which we may feel enormous loss, depression, deflation. We are challenged on so many fronts, but a significant one involves having to face something of which we may not have been aware: the secret plan we never knew we had for these later chapters in our life.

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The (Not So) Empty Nest

Kristen Houghton | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Job Loss, Empty Nest, Parenting Advice, Young-Adults-Living-at-Home, Adult Children, Parenting, Parents News
Kristen Houghton

Just as you're getting into the happy groove of your new life, your adult child shows up at your door asking to return home. What do you do?

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How To Vacation With Your Parents

Janice Van Dyck | Posted 08.20.2011

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Janice Van Dyck

All parents have one thing in common: they're getting older. So how do you spent time together and still enjoy it? The secret is you.

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Embracing My Messy Home

Susan Stiffelman | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Mother Son Relationships, Love and Relationships, Mother-Son Relationships, Mother Son Relationship, Adult Kids, Adult Children, Mother-Son Relationship, Healthy Living News
Susan Stiffelman

I love that my house is messy. Wherever I look, I see signs of my boy, that six-foot-five fella who has been scarce around here because of that college thing he has going on.

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Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money (Video)

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

Why people should not give money to their adult children.

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Just Listen -- What Made You Smile Today?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: How to Be Happy, Mark Goulston, Children, Happiness, Adult Children, Family, Healthy Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

One of my close friends was telling me recently how when his kids are happy he's happy and when they're not, he's not. My wife's version of this is: "You're only as happy as your most unhappy child." I agree.

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