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Well-intentioned help can gradually keep parents and adult children stuck.

Frequent rescuing may undermine an adult child's confidence and problem-solving skills.

Parents can be loving and supportive while encouraging greater independence, resilience, and accountability.

Few things are harder than watching your adult child struggle. Parents share with me their involvement in their adult children's challenges with finances, employment, mental health challenges, academic difficulties, or simply a failure to launch. The feeling of wanting to help comes with the territory of being a parent. From the moment our children are born, we are innately wired to protect, guide, support, and sometimes rescue them.

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