LAUNCH: Parenting Tips for Raising Adult Children & Building Better Relationships

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  #87: The 5 Secrets I Learned from Talking With Failing to Launch Young Adults 17.08.2026 14мин

  Send us Fan Mail Did you every wish you knew what your adult child was thinking? They're struggling to launch into adulthood but they never want to talk about anything. Maybe you've tried, but it never amounts to anything. Except a door shutting and the silent treatment. You're not a mind reader or a therapist. You're just their parent, who feels like a stranger. How long can you handle this? A little while back I began talking to young adults, after having conversations with parents. And it ...
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  #86: Overcoming Social Anxiety in Young Adults: A 22-Year-Old Shares His Story 11.08.2026 48мин

  Send us Fan Mail For any parent of a young adult struggling with social anxiety, you know the debilitating effects are keeping your adult child isolated, cut off from relationships, missing career opportunities, and lacking the self-confidence to build a life of their own. I know you worry constantly and wonder if they will have be free of it. Who can you talk to? Better still, who can they talk to? In this episode, I have a heartfelt conversation with Matthew Bowen who shar...
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  #85: Do You Have an Orchid Child? 3 Ways to Help Sensitive Adult Children LAUNCH 03.08.2026 14мин

  Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder why one of your adult children is struggling to LAUNCH while your other child (or children) seem to be doing fine? You parented them the same, right? Wrong. The truth is, you couldn't have. Because your children didn't come to you the same. They're genetically different which means they experience the world differently, respond to challenges differently, and needed different things from you as they grew. Realizing this can completely change the w...
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  #84: Stop Trying So Hard | A Simpler Way to Connect With Your Adult Child 24.07.2026 59мин

  Send us Fan Mail What if helping your young adult move forward didn’t require more rules, more demands or difficult conversations? What if it was actually simpler than that? In this episode, I’m joined by Geoff Owen, founder of Biologically Aligned Parenting and author of The Parenting Assumption. Geoff challenges one of the biggest assumptions we make as parents: that it’s our job to manage and control our children’s behaviour. His perspective is both refreshing and surprisingly simple...
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  #83: Failure to Launch Explained | 5 Tips to Help Your Adult Child Move Forward 19.07.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail Failure to Launch is one of the most widely used terms to describe young adults who are not progressing toward independence, but what does it really mean, who does it apply to and where did the term come from? In this episode, I talk deconstruct Failure to Launch, as I take you through the history of it, from early research in Europe during the 1980s to Japan’s phenomenon of hikikomori and the rise of the term in popular culture. You’ll learn why Failure to Launch is no...
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  #82: Advice from a Developmental Psychologist: How to Help Your Young Adult Thrive in Today’s Challenging World 10.07.2026 46мин

  Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Dr. Isabela Granic, a professor, psychologist, and developmental researcher with 25 years of experience studying what young people need to thrive. She’s also a parent of two young adult children and the founder and CEO of Liminal Learning, an innovative program designed to help young adults develop the social skills, confidence, responsibility, and a sense of purpose they need to navigate adulthood. Even though we're talking about the program at the start, D...
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  #81: What CONSEQUENCES Can I Give My Adult Child Who Doesn’t Do Anything I Ask? 29.06.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while, I release an episode that needs no introduction. And this is one of them. It's the number one issue that every parent with a struggling adult child living at home has no idea how to handle. They honestly believe that there are absolutely no consequences that would stick. That level of disrespect is so telling. They aren't bad kids. Nor are they lazy. There's a bigger problem and I talk about it in this episode. But more than that...
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  #80: Stop Supporting Your Stay-at-Home Adult Child 20.06.2026 9мин

  Send us Fan Mail If you've been doing everything for your adult child and their lifestyle hasn't changed, in fact nothing about their life has really improved, it's time you stop supporting them. No, you don't have to kick them out. Unless of course circumstances have become so unbearable at home, and they seem completely uninterested in being responsible and respectful, which means you're setting a move-out date. If that's the case, don't feel bad. Many parents are at that point...
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  #79: Repairing the Parent-Adult Child Relationship: Small Changes Make the Biggest Differences 17.06.2026 32мин

  Send us Fan Mail This is a much needed episode and I'm excited to share it with you along with my guest Andie Toderovitz, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who specializes in relationship issues, attachment styles, and emotional well-being. Andie helps individuals of all ages develop greater self-awareness and build deeper, more meaningful connections. Although most parents with struggling young adults tend to focus on fixing their adult child - the unemployment, the lack of mot...
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  #78: A New Perspective: Seeing Your Adult Child Through a Different Lens 09.06.2026 8мин

  Send us Fan Mail When an adult child is struggling, most parents focus on the most obvious problem: no motivation, lack of employment, low self confidence, complete dependence, zero responsibilities, poor communication… But what if you’re looking too narrowly? In this episode, I introduce a different perspective for parenting your young adult, one that looks beyond a single issue and considers the whole person. Discover why emotional well-being, mental health, relationships, life ...
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  #77: The Most Powerful Tools in Your Parenting Toolbox 24.05.2026 8мин

  Send us Fan Mail This episode could be a recurring one because it is the MOST important topic in raising children, and that say a lot. As powerful as it is, a majority of parents struggle with it because they were raised by a generation who didn’t understand how to apply these principles. But once you do, and you can, the floodgates will open. Your relationship with your adult children will change. They’ll feel heard, understood and safe to open up to you. It’s a short ep...
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  #76: Are You Parenting the Adult Child in Front of You or the Child You Were | What Young Adults Need to Thrive 21.05.2026 55мин

  Send us Fan Mail In this eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Dr. Brie Turns-Coe, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Arizona Christian University, and Director of their Masters of MFT program. With a career spent helping hundreds of parents break generational patterns and repair their relationships with their children, Dr. Brie brings both clinical expertise and genuine compassion to one of the most important conversations a pare...
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  #75: Text Me When You're Home 08.05.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail Today's episode comes to you with a virtual hug. My advice today is coming from my heart. Even though I have so much to offer you, because of my education, research, consulting, interviewing, writing and creating, these next 11 minutes come from a place that one can only call pure inspiration. Warning: This is entirely my opinion. Take it for whatever it's worth. Share it with a friend. Or don't. Maybe send me an email if you feel it struck a chord. I assure...
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  #74: Mental Health and Your Adult Child | What a Parenting Expert Wants Parents to Know 02.05.2026 1ч 3мин

  Send us Fan Mail Welcome to LAUNCH! Today, my esteemed guest is Dr. Jerry Weichman, a clinical psychologist, adolescent specialist, and parenting expert who has spent the last 27 years helping more than 6,500 families navigate some of the toughest challenges young people face today, from anxiety, depression, low self esteem, gaming addiction and more. He's the founder of the Weichman Clinic, and the creator of the podcast Raising Families with Dr. Jerry. In today's conversat...
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  #73: The Seven Deadliest Sins of Parenting an Adult Child 23.04.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail These are "Show Notes" and all the links that I talk about in this episode are below. The 7 Deadliest Sins of Parenting an Adult Child are the most common behaviors that loving parents fall into, often without even realizing it. But if you're still doing them, it's quietly costing your adult child their independence, motivation, and confidence, which is making it harder for them to launch into the life they're capable of living. But you are far from alone. So many parents of ...
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  #72: The Apology Ache: Healing Parental Hurt & Breaking Toxic Cycles 15.04.2026 38мин

  Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a little different than what you're used to. It's for those of you who have been hurt by a parent, and carry the quiet, painful ache of knowing that an apology is probably never coming and how you can move forward, without repeating the toxic cycle with your own children. My guest Paula Yost calls this the Apology Ache. That deep, lingering hurt from a parent who has wounded you, and you have to accept that they are never going to acknowledge it. In f...
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  #71: How to Get Your Adult Child to Become Responsible at Home 01.04.2026 9мин

  Send us Fan Mail If your adult child is living at home and refuses to take on any responsibilities, acting more like a hotel guest than a member of the household and you feel like you've tried everything, this episode is for you. After writing and creating an 18-page Living Together Guide and Agreement for parents of young adults who weren't participating or contributing to basic household responsibilities or anything in their life, I quickly discovered that most parents struggled to enforce ...
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  #70: A 30-Year-Old Shares His Story of Video Game Addiction & Recovery 25.03.2026 1ч 4мин

  Send us Fan Mail For any parent whose ever wondered whether their adult child has a video gaming addiction, and if so how they can help, this episode is for you. What may have started off as just a harmless activity turns into an all-consuming, socially withdrawn activity, where showering and eating are secondary to gaming and day/night reversal have become a way of life. Their bedrooms are their fortress, and their parents are not welcome. In this candid episode, 30-year-old Ja...
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  #69: The Dirtiest Word in Parenting Adult Children | And This One Is for Every Parent 20.03.2026 1ч 6мин

  Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is one of the most important conversations I’ve had on this podcast because it's touches every single parent, whether your adult child is struggling or not. We all have to come to face to face with this hard truth. That's why this is called the dirtiest word in parenting. There's a few contenders which my lovely guest and I discuss, but this one, this one is big. My guest today is Catherine Hickem, and before I tell you anything else about her cred...
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  #68: So You Think You’ve Tried Everything With Your Adult Child 07.03.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail Many parents of adult children feel powerless and think they've tried everything. Yet somehow, nothing has worked. The years have gone by and their adult child is still in the same place; at home, unmotivated, lacking confidence, and living without purpose, while everyone around them seems to be moving forward. In today’s short episode, I want to share something more personal with you. I’m going to explain why I am dedicating my time to guiding parents of young adults who are...