Psychology of Adult Children

Boomer Community: Aging with the Right People

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle Stress is an isolator. As its intensity increases, it promotes distrust of others and that distrust leads to greater isolation from the essential social networks…

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Boomer Perspective: Moment of Truth

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. —Chesterton While aging is inevitable, arriving at a healthy perspective about its meaning and potential is not. In our youth-oriented culture, middle age more often than not…

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Conflicting Layers of Longevity

As boomers approach the outskirts of being old, a new aging dilemma is beginning to emerge: simultaneous developmental phases with their aging parents. It is one thing to be fifty-something and have aging parents in their mid to late seventies.…

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Bitter Endings

We wished things had turned out different. They didn’t. History and personalities brought the drama of our aging parents to its only logical and painful conclusion. But as Linda Kriger points out in her heart felt article entitled Seeking Forgiveness…

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The Sibling Dilemma

“But things in this life change very slowly, if they ever change at all” The Eagles from Sad Cafe In David Rico’s book “The Five Things We Cannot Changeone of the immutable laws of living on earth is that “life…

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