Ep 20 - We’re on A New Planet: Letting Kids Go, Letting Them Grow

I Hate You. What's For Dinner? · Oct 1, 2026 · 57m

There are many points in the course of our relationships with our kids when the dynamics will shift. That’s how it’s supposed to happen. But as parents, we don’t always realize or own up to the fact that we have relational needs that we’re trying to meet in our relationships with our kids.

So when shifts happen –– smaller ones like a younger kid wanting to spend more time with peers or big ones like a kid going off to college –– we’re not always great at separating how our behavior is serving ourselves and maybe not so much our children.

Not that we know anything about those experiences…