Are you rushing around, preparing for the holidays and counting the minutes until you can hold the new baby? As a sandwiched boomer, you’re already squeezed between kids growing up and parents growing older. But now that you’re a grandparent, you get to take a bigger bite. Some say you don’t experience perfect love until the birth of your grandchildren. Others describe this as an opportunity to slow down and savor one of life’s most precious gifts. But you may have mixed emotions, feeling both excitement and apprehension. Perhaps you’re not … Continue reading
Covering Expenses of Adult Children
A recent Harris Interactive poll found that 40% of parents of adult children were still paying for their digital services such as cellphone data plans and streaming entertainment. Two years ago, another survey by Harris found that 60% of parents were providing financial support to their adult children – housing, transportation, living expenses, insurance, medical – even after they had completed college. Are you one of these? If you’re a parent continuing to support your adult children, it may be because of the relative lack of employment opportunities available to … Continue reading
Supporting Grown Kids
Parenting today seems to be a lot more complicated than it was in the past. Do you home school, look for a charter or send your youngsters to public school? How do you protect your teens from bullies, substance abuse and on-line sexual predators? Where do you draw the line between supporting your college-age kids and being a helicopter parent? And now there’s a new set of decisions for parents of adult children – do you pay for their digital expenses even after they’re working and on their own? A … Continue reading
Virtual Book Tour with Sarah Pleydell
Today we’re delighted to welcome author Sarah Pleydell to our blog. We’ll be discussing her beautifully written novel, Cologne, described as “wise and subtle…..as provocative as it is riveting.” Sarah has graciously shared a lot of information, so let’s get started: Her Mentor Center: This is a work of fiction, but there are elements of autobiography/yourself in the story, correct? Sarah: I started writing this novel while I was finishing my MFA thesis. I was ready to write a second book and was learning firsthand the task of writing a … Continue reading
