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Apr
29
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 Tough love got a bit tougher for our family this week. So never say, “It can’t get any worse.” Sorry to disappoint you, but it can. But despite this thought, as long as we are still upright, there is always hope. It’s possible to get stuck in the inertia of paralysis, but hope is still the necessary ingredient to taking the first step forward. I don’t want to go into too many sordid details, but let’s just say our older son is really on the crash and burn. We see it; he does not.
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Archive for the ‘Adult Children’ Category
Blog Posts by Kathy Pride
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Dec
11
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Parents, have you heard anything like this lately?
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Nov
12
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Dear PSL: I am at my wit’s end. I have been trying to get my 19 year old son to get a job for months now. He says he’s trying, but I can’t be sure, as I am not home during the day to supervise him. I also just found out that he has been lying to me about finishing his high school diploma online. I try to motivate him to get a job, but he just doesn’t seem to care. He’s not a bad kid. I just find that I am starting to resent working so hard to put a roof over his head when he is doing nothing all day, and then lying to me about it. What can I do to make him care? –Pulling My Hair Out
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Oct
30
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I have often quipped that middle-aged women and their twenty-something year-old kids don’t belong under the same roof, but the reality of this statement hit home this summer when our son moved back home temporarily.
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Aug
07
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If you listen to the news or read the paper, you know that more and more kids are living at home for longer periods of time. We often get calls on the Parental Support Line from parents of adult children who want to know how they can set guidelines down with their older kids, and when they should ask them to leave. If you’re the parent of an adult child who is living at home you are probably trying to figure out what your role is and what rules your child needs to adhere to while living in your home — because after all, your kid is grown up now and that changes things. You may be wondering when or if you should ask them to leave.
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Mar
05
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I almost laughed when I read an article on CNN.com about grown children moving back home. It brought back some old memories about moving in with my parents the summer after college.  For some, this scenario might be described as every parent and grown child’s nightmare, and a sign of “failure to launch.”
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