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Parenting adult children might not involve sleepless nights or dealing with detentions, but it can be highly challenging.
Often, the balance of power shifts and parents find themselves walking on eggshells, anxious about preserving a close relationship.
In this week’s episode Andrew talks to author and journalist Celia Dodd about the challenges and rewards of parenting later in life. They discuss:
- Dealing with conflict with your adult children
- What to do if you don’t get on with their partner
- Supporting adult children through periods of suffering and change.
- The sometimes thorny issue of how much you are involved with grandchildren.
- Adult siblings who don’t get on.
Subscriber Content This Week
If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:
⭐️How to keep conflict to a minimum but still talk about difficult things.
⭐️3 things Celia knows to be true.
⭐️AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.
Follow Up
Read Andrew’s new Substack newsletter The Meaningful Life, and join the community there.
Read Celia Dodd’s latest book All Grown Up: Nurturing Relationships with Adult Children.
Read Celia Dodd’s other books, The Empty Nest: Your Changing Family, Your New Direction and Not Fade Away: How to Thrive in Retirement
Visit Celia Dodd’s website www.celiadodd.co.uk
Follow Celia Dodd on Twitter @celia_dodd and on Instagram @celiaruthdodd
You might also enjoy our episodes on Healing the Mother/Daughter Wound with author Itoro Bassey, What You Wish Your Parents Knew with therapist/author Philippa Perry or How to Reinvent Yourself at 50 with journalist Eleanor Mills.
Read Andrew’s book Wake Up and Change Your Life: How to Survive a Crisis and be Stronger, Wiser and Happier
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
By Andrew G. Marshall4.5
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Parenting adult children might not involve sleepless nights or dealing with detentions, but it can be highly challenging.
Often, the balance of power shifts and parents find themselves walking on eggshells, anxious about preserving a close relationship.
In this week’s episode Andrew talks to author and journalist Celia Dodd about the challenges and rewards of parenting later in life. They discuss:
- Dealing with conflict with your adult children
- What to do if you don’t get on with their partner
- Supporting adult children through periods of suffering and change.
- The sometimes thorny issue of how much you are involved with grandchildren.
- Adult siblings who don’t get on.
Subscriber Content This Week
If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:
⭐️How to keep conflict to a minimum but still talk about difficult things.
⭐️3 things Celia knows to be true.
⭐️AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.
Follow Up
Read Andrew’s new Substack newsletter The Meaningful Life, and join the community there.
Read Celia Dodd’s latest book All Grown Up: Nurturing Relationships with Adult Children.
Read Celia Dodd’s other books, The Empty Nest: Your Changing Family, Your New Direction and Not Fade Away: How to Thrive in Retirement
Visit Celia Dodd’s website www.celiadodd.co.uk
Follow Celia Dodd on Twitter @celia_dodd and on Instagram @celiaruthdodd
You might also enjoy our episodes on Healing the Mother/Daughter Wound with author Itoro Bassey, What You Wish Your Parents Knew with therapist/author Philippa Perry or How to Reinvent Yourself at 50 with journalist Eleanor Mills.
Read Andrew’s book Wake Up and Change Your Life: How to Survive a Crisis and be Stronger, Wiser and Happier
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

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