How to navigate parenting when your kids become adults

The Drawing Room

There comes a point in everybody's life when the relationship between parent and child changes.

When we start to become our own adults, parents no longer need to provide care and advice in the same way. 

It used to be when around the age we left school and went to uni but that is beginning to change… which can make the 

Dr Laurence Steinberg argues in his new book ‘You And Your Adult Child: How to Grow Together in Challenging Times’  that factors like work and the economy mean that we’re moving through our life stages at about 5 -10 year later than our parents.

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