Family life
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The Joy of Parenting Young Adults
I love where we are in life with the kids, but occassionally guiding big kids can be so incredibly hard and frustrating at times. I am convinced young adults don’t mean to be challenging, I have come to realise that it’s not so much about them trying to be difficult, but more about their limited life experience. Their limited life experience and world view butts heads with our life experience and much larger world view. Sometimes it is just about learning to communicate better with them, and sometimes it’s about finding a better way to communicate when they report back we are not hearing them or frustrating them. Sometimes, depending…