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What Does It Mean to Parent Our Adult Children?
As our children grow up and fly the nest, so to speak, what is our role to be in their lives? We never stop being their parents, but we do stop parenting per se. By the time our children leave home, we have instilled in them, the morals, values and life skills that we find important. When they leave, it is time for them to use what we have taught them. Some of what we have instilled in them will be used; other things will be set aside, as they make their own life and find, ways of doing things that better fits them. However, that does not mean they…