The Last Year of Lifts
Twelve months, one young adult, and a long list of things they can almost do. Turn the final year at home into practice, not a farewell tour with snacks.
Explore this module →The Family College · COURSE
The Empty Nest, Furnished
They were always going to leave. That was the plan. Funny, practical lessons for launching your children, living with the quiet, welcoming the boomerang, and writing new house rules for a family of adults.
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Parents and step-parents in any family setup whose children are about 16 and older: getting ready to leave, already gone, or back home again. Includes solo parents, co-parents in two homes, blended and adoptive families, and parents of young adults with disabilities whose launch looks different.
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LEVEL 1 · FREE
Newbie
A launch-readiness checklist, a launch map that respects every route out, and a moving-day run sheet.
Leaving Is the Point
Every shoe you ever tied was pointing toward the door. See the launch as the goal, not the loss, and learn to say goodbye in three sentences or fewer.
Explore this module →Moving Day, Survived
Forty-seven items on the packing list, one mini fridge, and a goodbye that should not take three hours. Get through moving day with everyone still speaking.
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Apprentice
A check-in for the quiet house, a contact agreement that isn’t surveillance, and a plan for the next chapter.
You Can Hear the Fridge
The house is quieter, the fridge is louder and the bedroom door is suddenly open. Lessons on the feelings, the free time and the sibling still at home.
Explore this module →Staying in Touch Without Hovering
Fewer messages, better ones. How to stay close to a young adult without tracking their every sandwich, and what to do on the calls that matter.
Explore this module →Who Are We Now?
The kids have gone and the dinner table seems very large, whether it seats two or one. Lessons on your partner, your plans and a life of your own.
Explore this module →LEVEL 3
Practitioner
A visit-home agreement, a holiday planner for adults with several places to be, and a written family support agreement.
The First Trip Home
The first visit home: new opinions, old room, a suitcase full of laundry. Learn courtesies instead of curfews, share the house kindly, and plan the next visit before the car pulls away.
Explore this module →Holidays, Rebooked
Holidays now involve two homes, partners, time zones and a roommate’s lake cabin. Plan early, welcome every guest, revise traditions together and keep your adult child out of the referee’s chair.
Explore this module →Money Without the Lecture
The bank of mom and dad has no app and very flexible opening hours. Decide what you fund, label gifts and loans, teach by asking, and protect your own future. General education, not financial advice.
Explore this module →LEVEL 4
Specialist
A living-together agreement, an advice filter, and a house-rules charter for a family of adults.
The Boomerang Has Landed
Your adult child is moving back in, along with eleven boxes labeled “misc.” Agree rent, chores, guests and a plan, as adults, before the hallway disappears.
Explore this module →Advice, On Request
Your opinions are excellent, and nobody asked for them. Learn to give advice on request, sit through survivable mistakes, respect their choices and partners, and apologize well.
Explore this module →House Rules for Grown-Ups
When you visit your adult child, you are the guest, which means hands off their spice rack. New rules for visits, values, privacy and family meetings among adults.
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Expert
A map of the adult relationship, a good in-law plan, and a specific grandparent offer, if grandchildren come.
Promoted to Consultant
Your child is grown and your job title has changed. Learn to work as a consultant on retainer: experienced, available, and paid mostly in Sunday calls and photos of sandwiches.
Explore this module →You Are Now the In-Laws
Your child has a partner, and you have a new title nobody asked you to apply for. Learn to be the in-laws people look forward to, not the ones they rehearse for.
Explore this module →Grandparenting, If It Comes
If grandchildren arrive, you get a new role and a new rulebook written by someone else. Learn to help on their terms, keep your own life, and deliver the casserole without the lecture.
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Distinguished Fellow
A transition plan for launches at every pace, a plan for your family’s shape, and a support plan for the hard seasons.
Launching at Every Pace
For families whose launch takes its own route and pace: transition planning, rights at adulthood, living options and your own rest, with your young adult holding the pen (and the paint chart).
Explore this module →Nests of Every Shape
Two homes, step-relationships, solo parenting, adoption and staggered launches. Every nest empties in its own way, and some empty in two places at once.
Explore this module →When the Nest Is Hard
For the seasons that hurt: distance, struggle, separation. Calm, practical guidance on helping without taking over, and on finding support for yourself.
Explore this module →LEVEL 7
Master
A grown-up paperwork inventory, a plan for a life of your own, and a family charter for adults.
Who Gets the Gravy Boat?
Wills, powers of attorney and the delicate question of who gets the gravy boat. Plain paperwork, kind conversations and one dish with a surprisingly long waiting list.
Explore this module →A Life of Your Own, Furnished
The bedroom becomes a studio, the attic boxes find their owners and your calendar fills with things you chose. A practical course on building a life of your own, furniture included.
Explore this module →Master of the Empty Nest
The final practicum: everything from moving day to the gravy boat, gathered into one family charter. Nobody fails. Nobody finishes. Snacks are provided.
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