Parenting adult children

A therapist shared 10 things that adult children want to hear from their parents in order to heal a damaged relationship.

Today I am so excited to welcome Shelly Janac as a guest contributor to My Side of 50! You will recognize Shelly from most of the fashion round-ups I do. I love her fashion sense and she has given this "matchy-matchy" girl the courage to try some pattern mixing in her style - something Shelly

Adult children living at home can be difficult for parent and child alike. Learn how to set firm boundaries and rules to get your child to be independent.

It’s never too late to set up a living agreement with your adult children who are living under your roof. Here’s how to establish boundaries with them.

parents whose adult children don't want to be around them dread the holidays but rejected parents can take charge, map out the season, and

Parenting your adult child. Disrespecting you, making messes, breaking rules, smoking weed? How to set boundaries, rules and expectations for behavior. Setting up a Mutual Living Agreement.

Having a strong, close relationship with your adult children isn’t a given. It’s something that has to be cultivated and worked on. This relationship is founded on mutual respect and […] More

You love your adult children, but they're driving you CRAZY. Here's some tips to help in dealing with adult children living at home.

Your first two decades of parenting may have felt like a process of letting go — from your child’s very first tearful morning at nursery to waving them off to university — but, says the psychotherapist Julia Samuel, host of the Therapy Works podcast and author of Every Family Has a Story: How We Inherit Love and Loss, it wasn’t, not really. “There was so much in their childhood you could actually fix.” The biggest shift in our role as parents occurs when our kids are in their twenties, she…