Posted By: Elisabeth Wilkins, EP Editor
Category: Consequences, Disagreements and Arguments, EP Contest, Older Children, Teaching Accountability
Comments: 7
Dear EP Readers,
This is the last week that we’ll be featuring winning entries from our recent EP Contest in our blog. We appreciate all the parents who wrote in with suggestions for “Parenting Mistakes I’ve Made—and How I’m Going to Fix Them!”
To all of our winners, thank you once again for the encouragement and inspiration you offer—you have truly empowered other parents out there with your words!
–Elisabeth Wilkins, EP Editor
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Posted By: Megan Devine
Category: Older Children
Comments: 9
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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Posted By: Kathy Pride
Category: Adult Children, Older Children
Comments: 11
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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Posted By: Annita Woz
Category: Family Finances, Older Children
Comments: 15
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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