Parenting Emerging Adults: individuation and uncertainty
What’s on the other side of those teen years? A new parenting challenge: bearing witness to our emerging adult children navigate through the mists of uncertainty… as we and they learn to trust their unfolding process.
There’s no “what to expect” book for parenting emerging adults. And to make it more challenging, we may not have had healthy individuating modeled for us (ie: if you are the adult child of an emotionally immature parent).
But, there ARE tools we can lean into, so let’s take a look at how remothering moments can support us in surfing our own big feelings as we accompany our emerging adults with theirs.