Your Adult Children Still Need You
Dear Mom of Adult Children, When our children were young, we knew they needed us. This was made obvious by the tugging on our sweater so that they could get a snack. By the screaming for help when they got stuck at the top of the monkey bars on the playground and couldn't get down. By the 2:00 a.m. visits when they stood by your bed, sniffling and needing to climb in because they had a bad dream. There wasn't a doubt in our minds that they needed us. The teenage years were a bit more uncertain. Our teenagers wanted us to think they didn't need us. They began to assert their independence. They wanted to be able to make their own decisions. They stretched some boundaries, pushed their limits. Yet when they experienced heartbreak, when they lost a job, a pet, a friendship, they still turned to us. We sat up with them chatting about the challenges they faced and we encouraged them with what we hoped was the wisdom of life experience and with the knowledge that God is with th...
