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3 Holiday Tips for Adult Children of Divorce
For adults who grew up in a divorced family, the holidays can be a challenging time. One of the most helpful approaches is to develop your own traditions.
10 Things Never to Say to Your Adult Children
Millenials.<br>Emotions may be triggered by that one word for many.<br>May I pose a question?<br>Do you realize they are our legacy?<br>The babe that babbles<br>The two-year old that toddles and tumbles<br>The teen that tests limits – and tempts fate<br>The you...
How to Deal With Disrespectful Adult Children
When your adult child is treating you with contempt, know your value.
How To Interact With Adult Children As A Parent
It’s important to respect the personal space of the person who occupied your womb for nearly a year and then lived in your house for 18 more.
Balancing Work and Caregiving: Survival Tips for Adult Children
If balancing work and caregiving is a struggle, read on for a few tips that can help.
How Adult Children Affect Their Mother’s Happiness
Plenty of moms feel something less than unmitigated joy around their grown-up kids. Make sure yours feels that she’s getting as much out of her relationship with you as she gives.
How to Not Go Broke Supporting Adult Children
by David Ragland You’ve worked hard, you’ve saved, you’ve downsized, and the nest is finally empty. Life is good. But then one of your kids loses his job. Or she starts falling further into debt. Or decides to send your grandchild to a private school he can’t afford. Now what do you do? Is your o
Five Tips for Talking About Money With Adult Children
Help your clients with this difficult conversation.
Study examines what makes adult children cut ties with parents
A study of more than 1,000 mothers estranged from their adult children found that nearly 80% believed that an ex-husband or their son- or daughter-in-law had turned their children against them.
What to Do When Your Adult Children Don’t Like You
It hurts to be estranged from our kids. But the problem could just be misperception.
How helping your adult children financially can end up hurting their career
Parental support can help, depending on how that money is distributed.
How Parents and Adult Children Can Improve Their Relationship
Failure to Launch: Tips for Parents with Dependent Adult Children
What to do when your highly-dependent adult child won't fly the nest.
What Children Need Most is Adults That Understand Development
The brain doesn’t fully develop until about the age of 25. This fact is sometimes quite surprising and eye opening to new parents and early years professionals who are interacting with children every day. It can also be somewhat overwhelming to contemplate. It is essential to realize however, that the greatest time of development occurs in the year...
How to Handle Adult Bullying
Learn to recognize adult bullying -- especially in the workplace -- and learn what to do to make it stop.
How Grandparents Affect Grandchildren After Divorce
When my eldest daughter was about 8 years old, she was often bothered by her paternal grandparents' attitude towards me. Being her mom, I found it hard t...
Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and fam...
How Adults Can Encourage Kids To Be Original Thinkers
In Adam Grant's book, Originals, he writes that taking risks and embracing curiosity can lead to original ideas. So how can teachers and parents use his findings to help their kids be more creative?
What Children Know That Adults Don't: Celebrating the Magic of Childhood
Justin Minkel encourages teachers to incorporate the creative wonder of childhood into their classrooms to make space for student individuality and help develop a love for learning.
Helping Young Children Learn to Make Friends
With school starting up again, it’s important that parents think about ways they can help their children succeed not only academically, but also socially.
