First, parents make enormous sacrifices helping children become healthy and autonomous adults. When children are older, popular wisdom advises parents to let go, disconnect, and bite their tongues. Increasing life spans mean that parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: actively parenting adult children is a reality for many families. Family expert Ruth Nemzoff encourages parents to have close relationships with their grown children while respecting them as adults in her book, "Don't Bite Your Tongue Off".

Then, the elf sitting on the shelf can fly, and talk, and see; of course he'd never let you catch him doing any of these things. But every night he reports naughty and nice deeds back to Santa. At least that was the family tradition in Carol V. Aebersold's home. Not too long after Thanksgiving, a little elf named Fisbee would appear on a shelf or anywhere he had a good view of the household. And every morning he'd be in a new spot.

Ruth Nemzoff and Carol V. Aebersold, this week on Prime Time Radio.

First, parents make enormous sacrifices helping children become healthy and autonomous adults. When children are older, popular wisdom advises parents to let go, disconnect, and bite their tongues. Increasing life spans mean that parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: actively parenting adult children is a reality for many families. Family expert Ruth Nemzoff encourages parents to have close relationships with their grown children while respecting them as adults in her book, "Don't Bite Your Tongue Off".

Then, the elf sitting on the shelf can fly, and talk, and see; of course he'd never let you catch him doing any of these things. But every night he reports naughty and nice deeds back to Santa. At least that was the family tradition in Carol V. Aebersold's home. Not too long after Thanksgiving, a little elf named Fisbee would appear on a shelf or anywhere he had a good view of the household. And every morning he'd be in a new spot.

Ruth Nemzoff and Carol V. Aebersold, this week on Prime Time Radio.