For episode 50, I’m thrilled to welcome my mom back to Dear Nina. My mom, Kathy Sackheim, has been an instrumental part of the Dear Nina friendship universe. I quote her often in the column and the podcast. In this 20-minute episode she answered some questions that came in from the Dear Nina Facebook group. We covered the ways she’s seen attitudes about friendship change through the decades, whether parents and kids can be friends, whether parents should get involved in teens’ friendship issues, handling other parents’ opinions of us, letting go of trying to control your older kids as they leave for college (and earlier and later!), and lots more.
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Highlights from my conversation with my mom
My mom answered:
How have your friendships changed over the years?
What was it like letting go of teenage children as they headed off for college or other post-high school lift?
Thoughts on parents and kids as friends and even more thoughts on intrusive mothers
What we can teach our kids’ about spending money when they’re young (and then letting go)
Thoughts on marriage partners as “friends”
What do you do when moms are mad at you for something your kids did? Related: how involved should parents be in their teens’ social issues?
Being the bearer of bad news in friendship
My mom and I reflected on how I used to be better at separating what was “my” issue and what is really someone else’s opinion/issue with me that I cannot try to fix.
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