Parental Finance 101 More than 40 percent of parents still provide financial support to their 23- to 28-year-olds.  How do you know when to offer and help and when to cut off the cash flow. Financial expert  Beth Kobliner offered some advice in “Help Your Grown Child Without Going Broke.”   When to help (if [...]

Warning on lithium cell batteries If swallowed, these tiny round batteries trigger a chemical reaction that can kill children. Citing a medical journal  report, a New York Times health blog post  reported that the ingestion of lithium cell batteries can burn a hole in a child’s esophagus as severely as drain opener. The batteries are found in talking books, [...]

ET: Text Home! The secret to staying in contact with your adult children is learning to text.  They won’t answer the phone but they will text you. When a 25-year-old is texting in a bar no one know it’s to his mom about Sunday dinner not a hot date.  Huffing ton Post writer Elizabeth Cunningham [...]

What is the American Dream for our Adult Children?   The New York Times loves to track trends—sometimes real, sometime manufactured–for the sake of a story.  “The American Dream Is Elusive for New Generation” is the newspaper’s  latest contribution to the tsunami of articles on emerging adults.  It’s the woeful tale of a 2008 college [...]