Coming Home Again! – The Spring Migration of Emerging Adults (student version)
Parenting Emerging Adults – New Freedoms, New Fears. (parent version)
By Dr. Thomas Harvey, Leadership Consultant and Coach

The great migration begins again. Another semester over, maybe even a degree earned. Tens of thousands of college students and an increasing number of new graduates are emptying their dorm rooms and apartments and making another move ‘back home’. For some, the move will be just for another summer, and for others, the unemployed graduates, the disillusioned and the disenfranchised, maybe even longer. Frequent moves is one characteristic of this unstable period of life called emerging adulthood, the intense period of identity exploration and development where young people in their late teens and twenties experience the exhilaration of new freedoms and the uncertainty of new fears; also a time when the parent/child relationship changes dramatically. This article briefly explores evolution of this important phase of human development and offers a few practical tips for students and parents on how to successfully approach the key conflicts that are almost certain to arise.

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Copyright 2010, Tom Harvey – Advancing Self Leadership

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