How much should you expect of the young adults living in your home? What if they are going to college or have a job? How do you set rules and boundaries that make sense for your adult child and the rest of your family? Learn from our mistakes!
Read the post: Mistakes We Made Parenting Our Live-At-Home College Student
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- Empowering Parents section on adult children living in your home.
Tara says
Thanks so much for sharing this. My son is finishing up his freshman year and while we get along well, can see myself also making a big deal about him turning 18. (I wonder if it is natural for large family homeschooling moms to want to feel “finished” with something:) We too may feel like we have graduated in a sense!) I also married early and was fully “adulting” by 20 so it is very easy for me to get smug and scoff at those who seem to prolong adolescence. This podcast was really helpful for me. I think I might have some mindset corse correcting to do.
Amy says
I’m glad you found it helpful, Tara! It sneaks up on you and then you realize you have no idea what you are doing (when all along you thought you did! lol). I hope your transition goes well!
Diana Johnston says
Thank you for this podcast, and your earlier post on the subject. We are four years away from having our first 18yo, and I think that I seriously would have fallen into the same trap that you said – the “he’s 18, we’re DONE!” mindset. I think that our legal system, combined with our schooling system, leads to this – the eighteenth birthday is very much seen as a finish line – whereas the transition to adulthood is a curve. And really, they say, true adulthood isn’t achieved until about age 27! (By brain maturity, that is.) So thank you for the advance warning – I’m sure I’ll need to heed it!
As a side note, I would love to see pictures or hear family updates if you ever want to share – I miss hearing about some of your adventures and life updates! No worries if you’ve closed off that area for privacy reasons, though!!
Diana
Amy says
I took a lengthy sabbatical from the blog – only doing the bare minimum. I just needed some distance after 14 years of writing here.
Now, I am in the middle of redesigning the website and finally feeling like I can come back with some energy again! Do you get my emails? I share a lot more there because it’s not so public. 🙂