In this episode, Scott Becker reflects on the challenges and insights of parenting adult children.
Chapter 1: What insights does Scott Becker share about parenting adult children?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. We were thrilled recently to hit 7 million in downloads and thrilled for that. So thank you to our listeners and our audience and our guests. Today's discussion is adult children and direction. So here's the topic today. Many of the people in the audience either are adult children.
Chapter 2: How do adult children choose their own paths?
That's probably any of us are adult children. If you're an adult and you're a child of somebody or you have adult children. And one of the great fasting challenges about adult children is by the time they're in their 20s. They choose what they are going to do, regardless of what grandparents say, regardless of what you say and so forth.
Chapter 3: What are the challenges of letting adult children make their own decisions?
And so I'll have people say to me, how do you let him do that or who do that or whatever they're doing? And largely, I am generally with my children, adult children, so proud of what they're doing and the direction they take. And I've grown largely to let them choose that direction.
Chapter 4: What experiences does Scott share about his children's decisions?
There's every once in a while, they're choosing a direction, like a son a couple years ago decided to go to Ukraine during the middle of the war. And I thought, well, that's not a good direction. But of course, that son didn't tell me until after he'd already gone to Ukraine. And similarly with your kids, as they try to do different things, I've largely found they are very, very smart.
They're very, very on top of their games. They have their head on a swivel. And they've got to make choices to what they want to do. And I think this concept of parenting as your children become older and older, you can nudge a little bit.
You could try and give thoughts periodically, but at the end of the day, you're sort of stuck in this position of really embracing whatever they're doing and trying to support the heck out of them regardless of what it is. So the concept of threats or withholding things or other kinds of things, well, if they do this, I'm not going to do that.
I think it's largely wasted on your adult children, much rather that you – Let them make strong, intelligent decisions and then try and support whatever they want to do. And then you hold your breath a little bit. In any event, thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity Business Podcast. If you in any way, shape or form could relate to this, you send me a text at 773-766-5322.
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