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The Guardian - Life & Style • Feb. 1, 2026, 12:30 p.m.
Adolescence lasts into your 30s – so how should parents treat their adult children?
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There are lots of guidebooks for parents of young children – but what happens when your offspring hit adulthood? A psychotherapist shares her guiding principles for raising grownups When one of my daughters turned 18, our relationship hit a crisis so painful it lasted longer than I knew how to bear.
I was a psychotherapist, trained in child and adult development, yet I was utterly flummoxed. Decades have passed since then, but when I recently spoke to her about that time, a flood of distress washed through me as if it were yesterday.
This is how my daughter, now a mother herself, put it when I asked her to describe that era: Continue reading...
I was a psychotherapist, trained in child and adult development, yet I was utterly flummoxed. Decades have passed since then, but when I recently spoke to her about that time, a flood of distress washed through me as if it were yesterday.
This is how my daughter, now a mother herself, put it when I asked her to describe that era: Continue reading...
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