A 4-session course for loving parents:
Guidance on changing maladaptive patterns with struggling young adults
The Helpful Parent and Struggling Young Adult
Many loving, caring parents do tasks for their children that they believe are helpful:
- Making calls, scheduling appointments, and arranging opportunities for education or employment
- Pre-emptively changing the family schedule and parenting routines to relieve pressure from the adult child
- Lowering or removing family expectations to relieve stress on a struggling adult child
- Providing financial support beyond initial expectations and potentially outside of means
Sometimes these well-intentioned actions end up becoming a barrier to the adult child’s growth and independence. We often hear, “But if I don’t [make the meal, schedule the doctor appointment, etc.], my kid will never do it on their own.”
These parents often feel stuck and frustrated. They don’t know what to do (or what NOT to do) to make meaningful changes at home for themselves or their child.