Whether you’re concerned about your child gaining employment, paying their share of the rent, or contributing to household chores, a whole new set of dynamics occurs when adult children live with their parents.
At Empowering Parents, we hear from many parents whose children either never left home or returned after a brief experiment with the adult world. And we’ve written quite a bit about the challenges of living with adult children, including an Empowering Parents article about mutual ...
Seminars for Counselors, Teachers, Schools, Parents With Jim West Child, Adolescent and Young Adults Expert in Orlando, East Orlando, Winter Park & Clermont International Communicator: Jim has been invited to speak for private school accreditation boards over the past 6 years, including ACSI, Childr...
There is always the possibility that disclosure will bring with it the subtle, hard-to-prove sort of discrimination that doesn’t rise to the point of being actionable under law. Although autism falls under the purview of the Americans With Disabilities Act, human social interaction is unpredictab...
Having spoken to a lot of people with Aspergers (diagnosed or self-diagnosed), it quickly becomes apparent that the “extreme male brain theory” and the lack of “emotional empathy” are outdated and don’t reflect reality. I have an SQ of 114 (off top end of the scale), and poor so...