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Clinging to the concept that “‘It’s my house and you’ll do what I say,’ that dominating paradigm doesn’t work,” she said.

Rosalind Wiseman, co-founder of Cultures of Dignity, which works with parents, educators and young people to successfully navigate the challenges of young adulthood, said it’s important for parents not to return to old patterns of patronizing their adult children and instead treat them more as equals. Everyone is stuck in the same house together for a prolonged period of time.” Steve Simms, a licensed marriage and family therapist and director of the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, says that what’s unique isn’t just that young adults are home, “but that they’re home and they can’t really go anywhere. It’s a situation that can be ripe for conflict. Many parents whose adult children had left to start their own independent lives are navigating a complex and unexpected living situation, as COVID-19 has forced them to quarantine together. It’s a little uncomfortable when you’re on a personal phone call.” “You can hear anything from anywhere in that house. I can do everything I need to do.'” Lack of privacy is also an issue. Initially, “my parents moved back into high school parenting mode,” Kauffman said, routinely checking in on him.

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They’ve been there with their three kids finishing up the school year online from “any free spaces available,” said his mother, Lucene Wisniewski. His parents, thinking they were about to be empty nesters, had just downsized to a nearby place half the size, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. It’s the longest he’s lived under his parents’ roof in two years, but it’s not the 4,000-square-foot house he grew up in. Jeremy Kauffman, 21, was enjoying his junior year at Kenyon College when he had to move back home two months ago.

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