Parenting adult children is an interesting journey. We are still the parents, but somehow we have to
learn to move from coaching on the sidelines up to the bleachers. We have to learn to trust
their decisions in their continually shifting locus of control in a whole new way.
It’s so hard to let them go, but hopefully we have given them the tools to spread their wings and fly.
In letting them go, we are giving them the gift of developing their own sense of self.
Hope you can find encouragement in my reflections on parenting adult children —
learning to let go, stay connected, trust growth, and love deeply from the sidelines.
After all the blubbering emotions of letting our son go, we headed to BYU for the actual college drop-off. And as hard as it was, I have to admit there…
Sending a child to college for the first time is something no one can fully prepare you for — and nobody warned me how much of a rollercoaster it would…