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LAUNCH: Parenting Tips for Raising Adult Children & Building Better Relationships

Shari Jonas - Parenting Expert, Family Educator and Author

If you’re a parent of a young adult, are these questions keeping you up at night;How can I become the best parent to my kids? How can I improve my communication with them? How can we connect better? How can I help them to become more confident, resilient and independent? What can I do to motivate them? Why don"t they respect me? Why don"t they want to hang out with me?If you"re searching for these answers, this podcast is for you. I"m Shari Jonas and this is LAUNCH. Where I offer honest, no BS

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#93: Sticking to the Plan When Your Adult Child...

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2026/10/03

Send us Fan Mail How many times have you tried to make changes with your adult child but could never follow through? Something would happen and you'd back down. You had the best intentions, your mind was made up, but you couldn't deal with their reaction, and you buckled. After speaking with many parents, there are 3 concerns that come up repeatedly and in this episode, I talk about about what they are and what needs to happen before you begin setting new boundaries, expressing your exp...

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44:10

#92: Rethinking Your Adult Child’s Trauma and Mental...

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2026/09/27

Send us Fan Mail What if some of what we’ve been taught about mental health, trauma and therapy is actually making our adult children more fragile and keeping them stuck? Today I’m joined by Dr. Richard Blake, a British psychologist PhD, researcher, author and breathwork expert whose work challenges some of the assumptions we’ve come to accept about mental health and trauma. We talk about therapy culture and the stories we tell ourselves about our mental health, and whether we may have taken ...

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#91: Trigger Warning: Will Every "Failing to Launch"...

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2026/09/18

Send us Fan Mail This episode may be uncomfortable for some parents to hear. If your adult child is in their 20s or 30s and still living at home, not working, not studying, not contributing, or showing little direction for their future, you may have asked yourself: “What can I do if they don’t want to change?” If you’re parenting an adult child who is struggling with independence, motivation, responsibility, confidence, or launching into adulthood, you may also be dealing with enabling, rescu...

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34:55

#90: When Should Parents of Adult Children Stop Being...

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2026/09/11

Send us Fan Mail For parents of adult children who are struggling to launch, support can quietly turn into enabling and enabling becomes disabling. If you have an adult child living at home, not working, not in school, or not moving toward independence, you've probably told yourself you're being supportive. Paying bills. Managing setbacks. Handling stressful situations for them. Sending job postings. Giving them space. Avoiding uncomfortable conversations. Letting them do whatever they want -...

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12:44

#89: The Question Almost Every Parent Wants to Know:...

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2026/09/02

Send us Fan Mail A surprisingly large percentage of parents have asked themselves this question: should my adult child pay rent? Or at least contribute, if they’re working? What if they're not? Am I being fair or too harsh? Will it teach them, prepare them or upset them and hurt our relationship? What’s the right amount? What are others doing? This episode will make you think about your Adult child living at home. Why won’t they work? And if they are, why can’t they pay a share? ...

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#88: Why Your Adult Child Isn't Launching: What...

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2026/08/25

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of LAUNCH, I'm joined by the expert in adolescent psychology, Dr. Mark McConville, a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience working with adults, adolescents, and families. Mark is the author of groundbreaking book; Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn't Grown Up...and What to Do About It. It is the number one guide for parents with young adults who are struggling to move forward. I'm so grateful to have Mark on LAUNCH. He...

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14:11

#87: The 5 Secrets I Learned from Talking With...

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2026/08/17

Send us Fan Mail Did you every wish you knew what your adult child was thinking? They're struggling to launch into adulthood but they never want to talk about anything. Maybe you've tried, but it never amounts to anything. Except a door shutting and the silent treatment. You're not a mind reader or a therapist. You're just their parent, who feels like a stranger. How long can you handle this? A little while back I began talking to young adults, after having conversations with parents. And it ...

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48:06

#86: Overcoming Social Anxiety in Young Adults: A...

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2026/08/11

Send us Fan Mail For any parent of a young adult struggling with social anxiety, you know the debilitating effects are keeping your adult child isolated, cut off from relationships, missing career opportunities, and lacking the self-confidence to build a life of their own. I know you worry constantly and wonder if they will have be free of it. Who can you talk to? Better still, who can they talk to? In this episode, I have a heartfelt conversation with Matthew Bowen who shar...

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14:42

#85: Do You Have an Orchid Child? 3 Ways to Help...

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2026/08/03

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder why one of your adult children is struggling to LAUNCH while your other child (or children) seem to be doing fine? You parented them the same, right? Wrong. The truth is, you couldn't have. Because your children didn't come to you the same. They're genetically different which means they experience the world differently, respond to challenges differently, and needed different things from you as they grew. Realizing this can completely change the w...

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59:37

#84: Stop Trying So Hard | A Simpler Way to Connect...

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2026/07/24

Send us Fan Mail What if helping your young adult move forward didn’t require more rules, more demands or difficult conversations? What if it was actually simpler than that? In this episode, I’m joined by Geoff Owen, founder of Biologically Aligned Parenting and author of The Parenting Assumption. Geoff challenges one of the biggest assumptions we make as parents: that it’s our job to manage and control our children’s behaviour. His perspective is both refreshing and surprisingly simple...

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#83: Failure to Launch Explained | 5 Tips to Help...

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2026/07/19

Send us Fan Mail Failure to Launch is one of the most widely used terms to describe young adults who are not progressing toward independence, but what does it really mean, who does it apply to and where did the term come from? In this episode, I talk deconstruct Failure to Launch, as I take you through the history of it, from early research in Europe during the 1980s to Japan’s phenomenon of hikikomori and the rise of the term in popular culture. You’ll learn why Failure to Launch is no...

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46:37

#82: Advice from a Developmental Psychologist: How to...

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2026/07/10

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Dr. Isabela Granic, a professor, psychologist, and developmental researcher with 25 years of experience studying what young people need to thrive. She’s also a parent of two young adult children and the founder and CEO of Liminal Learning, an innovative program designed to help young adults develop the social skills, confidence, responsibility, and a sense of purpose they need to navigate adulthood. Even though we're talking about the program at the start, D...

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#81: What CONSEQUENCES Can I Give My Adult Child Who...

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2026/06/29

Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while, I release an episode that needs no introduction. And this is one of them. It's the number one issue that every parent with a struggling adult child living at home has no idea how to handle. They honestly believe that there are absolutely no consequences that would stick. That level of disrespect is so telling. They aren't bad kids. Nor are they lazy. There's a bigger problem and I talk about it in this episode. But more than that...

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#80: Stop Supporting Your Stay-at-Home Adult Child

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2026/06/20

If you've been doing everything for your adult child and their lifestyle hasn't changed, in fact nothing about their life has really improved, it's time you stop supporting them. No, you don't have to kick them out. Unless of course circumstances have become so unbearable at home, and they seem completely uninterested in being responsible and respectful, which means you're setting a move-out date. If that's the case, don't feel bad. Many parents are at that point. But if yo...

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#79: Repairing the Parent-Adult Child Relationship:...

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2026/06/17

This is a much needed episode and I'm excited to share it with you along with my guest Andie Toderovitz, a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who specializes in relationship issues, attachment styles, and emotional well-being. Andie helps individuals of all ages develop greater self-awareness and build deeper, more meaningful connections. Although most parents with struggling young adults tend to focus on fixing their adult child - the unemployment, the lack of motivation, the disc...

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#78: A New Perspective: Seeing Your Adult Child...

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2026/06/09

When an adult child is struggling, most parents focus on the most obvious problem: no motivation, lack of employment, low self confidence, complete dependence, zero responsibilities, poor communication… But what if you’re looking too narrowly? In this episode, I introduce a different perspective for parenting your young adult, one that looks beyond a single issue and considers the whole person. Discover why emotional well-being, mental health, relationships, life skills, self-conf...

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#77: The Most Powerful Tools in Your Parenting Toolbox

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2026/05/24

This episode could be a recurring one because it is the MOST important topic in raising children, and that say a lot. As powerful as it is, a majority of parents struggle with it because they were raised by a generation who didn’t understand how to apply these principles. But once you do, and you can, the floodgates will open. Your relationship with your adult children will change. They’ll feel heard, understood and safe to open up to you. It’s a short episode today. But ...

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#76: Are You Parenting the Adult Child in Front of...

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2026/05/21

In this eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Dr. Brie Turns-Coe, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Arizona Christian University, and Director of their Masters of MFT program. With a career spent helping hundreds of parents break generational patterns and repair their relationships with their children, Dr. Brie brings both clinical expertise and genuine compassion to one of the most important conversations a parent can have. What...

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#75: Text Me When You're Home

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2026/05/08

Today's episode comes to you with a virtual hug. My advice today is coming from my heart. Even though I have so much to offer you, because of my education, research, consulting, interviewing, writing and creating, these next 11 minutes come from a place that one can only call pure inspiration. Warning: This is entirely my opinion. Take it for whatever it's worth. Share it with a friend. Or don't. Maybe send me an email if you feel it struck a chord. I assure you that I can h...

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#74: Mental Health and Your Adult Child | What a...

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2026/05/02

Welcome to LAUNCH! Today, my esteemed guest is Dr. Jerry Weichman, a clinical psychologist, adolescent specialist, and parenting expert who has spent the last 27 years helping more than 6,500 families navigate some of the toughest challenges young people face today, from anxiety, depression, low self esteem, gaming addiction and more. He's the founder of the Weichman Clinic, and the creator of the podcast Raising Families with Dr. Jerry. In today's conversation, Dr. Jerry sh...

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