One good thing to come out of asking my older kids to settle their plans without me in the middle, is that they did settle their plans. But the second is I realized I'd like to begin a group of women as a support for those of us grappling with grown kids and how to manuever the minefields of interaction. I think it would be useful and we could pool our knowledge and help each other figure out what is appropriate or not. I know we are all struggling to be good older parents of older kids, and we don't know the "rules". Some of us had our parents die so young we never got to figure out how to relate to our parents when we ourselves were first parents. Some of us were midstream in our own young parenting when a parent died, and some of us have very aged parents so we are caught in between being grown kids and parents of grown kids.
I'm going to send out an email to friends next week and see if anyone is interested.
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