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Moreover, the children themselves, left unschooled in the arts of delayed gratification and self-help, may be more hurt than helped by their parents' love. Betty Frain, a psychotherapist specializing in working with families and co-author of Becoming a Wise Parent for Your Grown Child, warns that "the downside for grown children [who are being funded] is that they don't develop internal coping skills, and so they feel weak and controlled and continue to be dependent." And often greedy and resentful rather than grateful. Jane Nelsen, a California-based therapist and author of Parents Who Love Too Much...
Many families are choosing to bring in a mediator with financial expertise, reasoning that it's often easier for a child to learn from an outsider than from a parent. Financial planner Randy Siller, regional CEO at Sagemark Consulting, has found that the amounts requested by grown children tend to increase every year. So Siller suggests that the parents set time limits and this way gradually wean their children from dependence. For example, parents might offer to help out with $10,000 one year, $5,000 the next, and that's it. When clients of average means ask Stephen Mintz...
...legions of tense security forces. It was the complexity of all the loci of power represented on the podium. It seemed impossible that anyone's ear could be tuned to so much dissonance, much less, I have to admit, someone you were used to seeing at the parent-teacher night at the local high school...
...course, it's good, I think, to have a president who has been to the parent-teacher night at the local high school. Despite his family name and his privileged education, Bush revels in the rituals of everyday life. When he said his farewell in the Texas senate, he said he is and will always be a Texan and broke into tears. Much of America may be conflicted about who he is, but he is not. His talent, as it's now easy to see looking back past the election to his years in Texas, is not campaigning but leadership...
Three years later, Bollinger may return to Commencement, not as a proud parent, but as the new president of Harvard University...