The SelfWork Podcast
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
452 SelfWork: Parenting: Letting Go of Your Grown Kids
21 minutes Posted Jun 27, 2025 at 5:00 am.
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Today’s episode is on the stage of parenting, where you leave the “teaching” stage of parenting to the “consulting” stage. You move from having a very central, controlling role with your kids to a less primary, but still very important role. You don’t tell them what to do necessarily – but you offer guidance. And if they fall, you help them get up. You show your belief in them – you don’t try (as hovering helicopter or even worse lawn-mower parents do) to make sure they’re not facing any obstacles. You may think you see the obstacle before they do – but they’re grown. And they’ve got to live out their choices – just as you did. Or hopefully you did.
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