Independence: Adult Child

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Refuse to Let Adult Child Move Back Home?

J.G. asks from Minneapolis

Ok, so brief background: I don't have any grown children but I do have a mother who, in many ways, acts like my teenage daughter more than my mother. She is fairly fr...

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Adult Son Would like His Girlfriend (And Her Son) to Move in with Us

B.H. asks from New York

My 27-year-old son lives at home. He has a f/t job, helps with the house, helps pay bills. He has been seeing a 24-year-old girl for a while. She has a 5-year-old son...

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He's off to Japan a Week from Tomorrow

S.W. asks from Detroit

Hello All, My darling son (who turns 15 in August) is headed off on a 10 day tour of Japan, flying out a week from tomorrow. He's going with a tour that was organ...

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Calling All Empty Nesters and Parents of Older Children

K.M. asks from Orlando

Hi. I have a question to all the empty nesters and those who have teenage children. This year my youngest daughter is in high school as a freshman and my oldest is a ...

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Free Range Parenting

N.G. asks from Dallas

I had been suspecting that I was verging on helicopter mom status for a while, so I have been working on trusting my kids and their own independence for a while, whic...

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This Bothers Me, Do You Agree?

V.B. asks from Philadelphia

Someone else's recent post (and the comments that followed it) got me to thinking. Our society has a major stereotyping problem: women under a certain age aren't read...

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13/14 Year Old Supervision? or Not?

C.K. asks from Des Moines

I have a 13 year old daughter and we have set rules about her social activities; we supervise them. If she wants to go with a group of friends to hang out at the mal...

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Baby Wants to Feed Self but We Only Have 3 Teeth!

C.A. asks from Dallas

My one year old daughter has two bottom front teeth and 1 top front tooth. She's going through a thing where she wants to feed herself now...not with a spoon, she ...

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18 Y/o Daughter Issues

C.C. asks from Washington DC

I have a wonderful 18 y/o who is an independent smart person just like her mom! Before she went off to college in August (We are letting her stay on campus even thoug...

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Age Appropriate Activities for Almost 13 Yro

D.S. asks from Columbus

I have a soon to be teenager and I have been struggling later with how much “freedom” is appropriate for this age. He’s been allowed sleepovers with some friend...