Adult Children

Nothing is more debilitating

Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can’t do anything about. And you can’t do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else’s vibration other than hold them … Read more

It helps parents to

It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections…. We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren. Eda LeShan

Creative action plays with

Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark… the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard. Arthur J. Deikman

Raising children is a

Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall. Anna Quindlen

If a child is

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson