Renegotiating Roles With Grown Up Children

Written by Sarah Davis

There are two different transitional challenges here: one about adult children who are still living in your home, and another challenge with those who are independent but are themselves now rearing a young family.

We may have expected that, by the time we retire, any children would now be separate adults with lives of their own; but it’s also possible that our adult children keep coming back home to stay, or haven’t quite managed to leave yet.

Consider how different this is to our parent’s retirement experience; they could be pretty certain that by retirement their children – born in the baby boomer generation – would have left home for university, or whatever,…