Is your young adult working a minimum wage job and living at home with no real plans for the future? It could be that they just haven’t found the right career match for them. When our daughter, Laura, graduated from college with a degree in social work, she didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life. After completing…
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Parenting is the most rewarding and the most heartbreaking job on the planet. I’ve had moments of pure joy in parenting, where I just want to bottle up the moment, so I can relive it again and again. I’ve also had moments as a parent where my heart is so broken that it physically hurts, where I wish I could remove…
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Is your young adult stuck in life and not moving forward in one or more areas of adulting? The wheel of life wheel of life pdf1 is a great tool for making sure the wheels are in alignment and not all wonky. The Wheel of Life is divided into 8 different colored sections that represent 8 different areas of…
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Are you looking forward to your young adult launching into the world or dreading it? In the movie, Failure to Launch, the mom spoils her son by doing his laundry and fixing special meals for him, yet she appears frustrated and worried that he’s not growing up. She admits later in the movie that she’s actually afraid of having an…
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Hi! I’m Karen! I’m a parent of three grown kids and a former coach for educators. While mentoring new teachers during their first year of teaching, I discovered something surprising. The same coaching strategies I used to equip teachers to thrive in the classroom were just as effective for guiding my own young adults to solve their own problems and…
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