Relationship Skills: Setting Boundaries with Your Young Adult Children

Almost every parent of a teen or emerging adult child has experienced the frustration of trying to effectively protect them from impulsive emotional decisions that may impede their success. But it can feel like an endless battle of wills: you either give in and accept that you cannot control them; or go into full metal control, which severs the relationship.

So how can parents avoid these types of all or none scenarios? How can you more effectively scaffold your emerging adults' growth and development, and maintain a healthy relationship?

In this chat, we will:
- discuss how and why the seeds of these unhelpful power struggles get planted.
- explore the counter intuitive nature of communicating during an emotional situation
- role play and practice specific strategies for more effectively communicating with your emerging adult child

Dr. Lara Fielding
Clinical Behavioral Psychologist @Author: 'Mastering Adulthood:
Go Beyond Adulting, to Become an Emotional Grown-Up'

Dr. Lara Fielding is a clinical behavioral psychologist, specializing in a skills based approach to emotion regulation. She is the author of Mastering Adulthood: Go Beyond Adulting to Become an Emotional Grown-Up, an evidence based self-help book, which outlines the protocol she teaches her graduate students and in her private practice.

Want to start building your skillfulness for Mastering Adulthood: You can get Dr. Fielding's book here:

Randi Silverman
Executive Director @The Youth Mental Health Project

Randi Silverman is the co-Founder of The Youth Mental Health Project and an award-winning screenwriter and producer of the feature film, NO LETTING GO. As national public speaker and presenter on the topic of children’s mental health, Randi sparks meaningful conversations that provide insight into the challenges faced by families with a loved one who struggles with mental illness.