20-Something Issues
21st Birthday Party - Ideas for a 21st Birthday Party
Share your tips for celebrating a 21st birthday or throwing a 21st birthday party.
Book Review: Don't Bite Your Tongue
Book review: "Don't Bite Your Tongue," an advice book about parenting adult children by Dr. Ruth Nemzoff.
How to Help Your Kid Find That First Apartment
Finding a first apartment can be a challenge. Here are tips and online resources to help you help your kid on that search.
21st Birthday Gift Ideas - Share Tips on 21st Birthday Gifts
Share your tips for great 21st birthday gifts.
Wedding Planning Tips - Tips for Planning Weddings
How did you divide wedding costs?
A Parent's Guide to Understanding the Quarterlife Crisis
Some young adults are lucky enough to know what they want to do from an early age. For the rest, the adjustment to the real world can be a harsh one. That's why it's been dubbed the Quarterlife Crisis. Here are some tips to help parents of young adults understand what's going on.
The Best Quarterlife Crisis Books
Quarterlife Crisis: Books for 20-somethings - and their families - on surviving and thriving, from identity crises to the relationship and career travails of quarterlife.
Quarterlife Crisis - 5 Ways Parents Can Help
The upheaval of the twenties may be unavoidable, as young college graduates chart a new course. But there are five things parents can do to help.
Quarterlife Crisis Resources
That signature crisis of confidence that strikes most 20-somethings has a name now, Quarterlife Crisis.
Tradition has it that new 21-year-olds should be given a fine vintage from the year they were born – or perhaps I’ve been reading too many British novels from the last century because for most 21st century families, such a gift has all sorts of problems, not the least of which is the lack of a temperature controlled wine cellar, and a butler to...
Parenting 20-somethings
Now that your kids are grown, how do you restructure your relationship so you’re neither too involved, nor so hands-off there isn’t much of a relationship there at all? How do you stay close while letting go? And why didn't Dr. Spock write a book about these years? The baby books didn't say anything about grad school, boomerang kids who move...
What's a Co-Signer?
First Apartment Lowdown: What's a co-signer?
Book Review: "How to Raise Your Adult Children"
Gail Parent and Susan Ende's "How to Raise Your Adult Children" tackles the big issues that face 20somethings.
First Apartment Paperwork
First Apartment: There's nothing like contemplating a new apartment to unleash a torrent of paperwork. Here's what you, oh parent and co-signer, can expect to see.
There’s something about hitting that magic birthday - the legal drinking age - that makes even normally level-headed young adults throw caution to the winds. Tales of 21st birthday pub crawls and epic day-after hangovers abound. But here are five ideas for families who want to host a memorable 21st birthday celebration, with a little celebratory booze, but no hangovers