I wrote The Parent's Launch Code to help parents who struggle to maintain a caring and positive connection with their young adults while letting them
An Excerpt from “The Parent’s Launch Code: Loving and Letting Go of Our Adult Children”
What Exactly is a Successful Launch of a Young Adult? My definition of a successful launch of a young adult is that the young adult has become
Be A Better Person
It's only taken me forty years to figure out why I do what I do. Over the years, I have been involved in youth ministry, working with adolescents with
Is Someone Missing from Your 2024 Holiday Table?
This is a reprint of a blog I posted in December 2018, but it's even more relevant today. There has been an increase in estrangement between adult
How to Show Unconditional Love to Your Young Adult
To successfully launch a young adult, we must support their independence and self-sufficiency while retaining the caring bond we all want to have with
The 4 Types of Failure to Launch (FTL)
You may have seen the 2006 Matthew McConaughey movie, Failure to Launch, which reinforced a popular view of a young adult enjoying the benefits of
3 Truths to Help Parents Foster their Children into Adulthood
In the book I have written, The Launch Code: Loving and Letting Go of Our Adult Children, I describe three truths that form the foundation of the work
How to Be More Than a B+ Father
With the recent advent of Father’s Day, I started to reflect on how well I raised my kids to be kind, self-sufficient, and independent young adults. I
A Parent’s Critical Role in Young Adult Identity Formation
Quite a few young adults feel comfortable living at home, taking advantage of room and board, if not other services, and playing video games late into