Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, Dr. Ken.gus. Hey, Dr. Ken.

Jessica.

We're talking about adult children living at home today.

This is a topic that I have a little bit of experience with.

Yes, me too.

And I think it's important for me to tell people that.

Because I've told you before before people come to my office

if they've read my book and they're actually sheepish like we need to admit to you that our 21

year old is living with us because her apartment is being redone or whatever I'm like that's fine

and it doesn't mean you can't have adults living at home you know that that's the issue. So I want to start by clearing that.

I think all of my kids have lived sometime with us at home. And yours have too. After their adulthood.

Yeah. Yes. Which I think there's a time and a place for that, right? And then there's also an

endpoint. That is the critical thing. There's also an end point.

Yes. So let's talk about this because I know a lot of people have, we're in the fall now. And so a lot of people have had these kids maybe that graduated in May and did or didn't get a job. Maybe they did get a job and they live close by. And it makes a lot of sense for them to be sharing,

you know, their home just because it's expensive to live on your own. And I know my son is paying a lot

of money for his one bedroom apartment and it's shocking how expensive things are right now.

And so I know a lot of kids don't have the money right away to live outside the home. Sometimes

they've

graduated in May from high school and they're now living with mom and dad because they're going

to maybe a community college or something like that. So or trade school, you know, and so there's a lot

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