When we ask ourselves what to buy our young adult child for a holiday gift, the natural tendency is to explore what material gift they might want or
Apology and Forgiveness – The Most Important Holiday Gifts
"Please go away and don’t try to contact us again," the young adult told her parents, who were outside of her apartment, begging her and her husband
Parental Practices that Support a Successful Launch of Your Young Adult
The left side of the graphic above illustrates the practices that parents need to strengthen to successfully let go and launch their young adult. The
How Well Do You Know Your Young Adult?
Here’s a short quiz that can indicate how well you know your young adult. Answer the following questions and then take your young adult to lunch and
“NO” is Not a Four-Letter Word
As the song goes - "sorry is the hardest word." But for many parents of teens and young adults, "no" is the hardest word. We often have trouble saying
Parents: Walk Side-by-Side with Your Young Adult
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead, don’t walk in front of me., I may not follow, just walk beside me -Albert Camus As new parents, we walk behind
The Good News About Millennials
When I describe my work with failure to launch parents, I typically find these friends either have similar problems or know of parents who do. Often
Risky Behavior & The Developing Brains of Young Adults
In my early young adult years, while working in a local Seafood Restaurant, I was taunted by several of my co-workers to jump off of the 34th street
Parents, Change First
Parents typically come to my private practice to complain about their adolescent or young adult. They either explicitly or implicitly want me to