Empty Nest Syndrome:Your kids are leaving. Are you ready?

Recorded March 21, 2021.

Where did the time go? Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were kissing a skinned knee or helping our little one tie their shoes?  Snapping back into our reality, those little kids are teens and young adults. They are much more independent and our role as parents is different....and a bit scary. 

In this episode, we share our strategies for and challenges with embracing the  empty nest syndrome. Neither of us are fully empty nesters yet so we can only hope we are on the right track.  Join us for the conversation.

Quotes:

Twanda: I want to grow old gracefully!

Rhumel: No, I want to kick and scream! I don’t want to grow old gracefully. I’m not fighting aging, I don’t want to slip in quietly. 

Whether it is volunteering or crafting or traveling or whatever. If you have worked on these things I think it means the transition from your kids going off and being adults a smoother transition. - Rhumel

It’s a challenge when you are used to taking the lead role in your child’s life and making the decisions for your child and all of a sudden you aren’t in the driver’s seat for it. - Rhumel

The school thing helps us prepare for when it’s totally a done deal. - Rhumel

That’s what our role becomes. Instead of controlling what they do, [we are] helping them to think through their decisions. We can’t control whether they do it or not but we can help influence them in making a better decisions. - Twanda

My mom said it was like having a constant hole in the family. - Rhumel

We just have to realize that at every point in our children‘s lives they are still our children; it’s just that we parent differently and if we can just adjust to the proper phase I think we’ll be all right. - Twanda

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