A recent article from Forbes offer this tip on how families with adult children living at home can get the most out of the experience:
As trite as it might sound, the watchwords here are tolerance and curiosity. If everyone can approach the new living arrangement as an opportunity to learn more about each other, insists Joelson, the situation can go from being a burden to an enriching experience.
You can read the whole article here.
We’ve already shared some tips on how to update your adult child’s space so that he or she doesn’t feel like the move home is a move straight back into childhood. Here are some more tips, this time from the Cape Cod Times.
Here’s their list of five-second fixes for your adult child’s room:
- Add some fluff: Decorative pillows in corresponding colors can give a bit of pop to a plain bedspread.
- Floor it: Adding an Oriental rug or other vibrant floor covering disguises ratty carpet and brightens the room.
- Print ’em: A favorite print, a blown-up photo of friends, or a tapestry hung on the wall immediately draws the eye toward it – and away from the piles of dirty clothes in the corner.
- All-in-one: A bed-in-a-bag set, which often contains a comforter, sheets and pillowcases, can refurbish a room in one fell swoop.
- It’s a keeper: A favorite keepsake, such as a high school trophy or beloved teddy bear, will ensure the room is comfortable, no matter how many changes are made.
You can read the rest of the article here.
We posted a new article on our site today, all about how you can plan ahead to make sure your new grad’s return to the nest is a smooth one. Here are some tips from the article:
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Returning to a childhood room that still looks like a childhood room can be hard on the self-esteem of adult children who move back home. There are ways to decorate an adult child’s room that maximize investment in pieces for future use, and minimize impact on the parents’ home after they leave. This article provides some tips on how to make the decor of an adult child’s room work or everyone in the home.
Just because your adult children are living at home, that doesn’t mean you need to continue to support them in the same way you did when they were kids. As we discuss in our book, providing too much financial support for your grown children can hold them back from establishing their own careers and developing sound financial management skills.
This article, based on the book “Does Your Bag Have Holes” by Cameron C. Taylor, uses simple stories to illustrate why letting your children find their own wings can be the best thing you ever do for them.
With so many adult children returning home after completing an undergraduate degree, families are facing a new question: who pays for grad school? A generation ago, it would have been virtually unheard of for parents to pay for a master’s degree, but with many grad school students or applicants still living with Mom and Dad, parents may end up bearing some financial burden when their kids go to grad school, even if they’re not paying the tuition.
This article offers tips on how to help your adult kids decide on financing options for grad school — and whether it makes sense for you to help foot the bill.
Many states are passing legislation that requires employer-provided health care to extend coverage to dependent adult children living at home well past the tradition cut-off age of 19 for non-students.
For example, in Kentucky adult children lliving at home must be covered by the parent’s employer-provided health insurance up to age 25, whether they’re students or not. In New Jersey, depending on the situation, your adult child may be covered up to age 30.
This article looks at the issue from the employer’s perspective, but it also provides a good overview of what the new trends in legislation are. Take a look to see what teh current guidelines are for your state, then make sure you take advantage of them!
UK parents with adult children living at home may be able to get a break on council tax if the adult child is on income support or income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, or if they’re a student.
When parents and children live through tough times together, a bond forms that can make it difficult for either the parent or the adult child to deal with the idea of living apart from one another. This phenomenon is called “enmeshment.”
But in the end, adult children must eventually strike out on their own and build independent lives.
U.K. newspaper columnist Dr. Cecilia d’Felice gives some advice to families in this challenging situation in her column this week.
Today’s “Classic Ann Landers” features two questions on dealing with adult children, including one 21-year-old stepson who lives at home and sometimes has his girlfriend sleep over.