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How To Parent Adult Children

Until they married we were vitally involved in the daily details of both our children. Basically, we were best friends. Now what? A lot of emphasis is put on “leaving and cleaving,” but relatively little is said about how to maintain the parent-child relationship. So lately I have been thinking about this topic of parenting adult children--what does it mean, and what does it look like? Here are eight thoughts…

posted by Galen , 31 december 2007, 16:41
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    I wonder if children parent their parents as much as the opposite. Adult children do not need to be “parented” anymore. They just need to be treated as complete human beings and given right to live their own life. This includes right to making their own mistakes.

    by Neatly, 3 january 2008, 13:56 | reply

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