Laurence Steinberg: You and Your Adult Child

 You and Your Adult Child
Dr. Laurence Steinberg

Thursday, November 9 at 7 p.m. EST

Online via Zoom
Free & open to all

Join Dr. Laurence Steinberg for a lecture and discussion of his book You and Your Adult Child.

It now takes young people fifty percent longer to make the transition from adolescence to adulthood than it took their parents' generation. Much has been written about the impact of this delayed and prolonged transition on young people, but little has been said about the effects of this social change on their parents or on family dynamics. In fact, many parents with children in their 20s and 30s are perplexed and confused about how to navigate these uncharted waters, and young people often feel misunderstood by their parents.

Dr. Steinberg will discuss the changed and changing nature of the relationship between parents and their adult children in contemporary society and offer guidance for parents, young people, and practitioners on how to handle issues that frequently arise in the domains of education, work, romance, finances, and grandparenting. He will also address how parents can maintain a strong bond with their grown child during this challenging time.

Laurence Steinberg, one of the world’s leading experts on adolescence, is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University. Dr. Steinberg is the author or co-author of approximately 500 articles and essays on development during the teenage years; the author of many books for parents, including Age of Opportunity: Lessons From the New Science of Adolescence, You and Your Adolescent, and The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting; and the leading college textbook on the period, Adolescence. His latest book is You and Your Adult Child: How to Grow Together in Challenging Times. Dr. Steinberg has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and is a frequent guest on NPR. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former president of the Society for Research on Adolescence.

This event will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel: OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College.