Celia Dodd: Navigate Your Relationship With Your Adult Children

The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall

Parenting adult children might not involve sleepless nights or dealing with detentions, but it can be highly challenging.

Often, the balance of power shifts and parents find themselves walking on eggshells, anxious about preserving a close relationship.

In this week’s episode Andrew talks to author and journalist Celia Dodd about the challenges and rewards of parenting later in life. They discuss:

- Dealing with conflict with your adult children

- What to do if you don’t get on with their partner

- Supporting adult children through periods of suffering and change.

- The sometimes thorny issue of how much you are involved with grandchildren.

- Adult siblings who don’t get on.

Celia Dodd is the author of All Grown Up: Nurturing Relationships with Adult Children. She is an author and journalist who writes about parenting and major transitions in life, such as the empty nest and retirement. Celia has written regularly for British papers such as The Times and the Independent. She recently produced a Retirement Planning Toolkit and webinar for Hampshire Police Force, and works with other organisations on retirement planning.

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⭐️3 things Celia knows to be true.

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Read Celia Dodd’s latest book All Grown Up: Nurturing Relationships with Adult Children.

Read Celia Dodd’s other books, The Empty Nest: Your Changing Family, Your New Direction and Not Fade Away: How to Thrive in Retirement

Visit Celia Dodd’s website www.celiadodd.co.uk

Follow Celia Dodd on Twitter @celia_dodd and on Instagram @celiaruthdodd

You might also enjoy our episodes on Healing the Mother/Daughter Wound with author Itoro Bassey, What You Wish Your Parents Knew with therapist/author Philippa Perry or How to Reinvent Yourself at 50 with journalist Eleanor Mills.

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