Rebeccah SilenceWorlds Leading Love & Emotional Healing Coach • Speaker • Author • Creator of The Unsilent Woman

Transitioning from Parent-Child to Adult-Adult Relationship #shorts #parenting

15 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Rebeccah Silence urges parents to stop treating their grown children as if they were still kids. She emphasizes the need to truly get to know who the adult child is beyond the parental perception, noting that many of her long‑term clients—people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s—still feel infantilized by their families of origin. Rebeccah argues that the parent‑child dynamic no longer works once children are adults and that families must shift to an adult‑adult relationship to avoid ongoing emotional distress and “madness.”

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So get to know who your child is beyond who you know them to be. Pressure's off. You, you did it. They're now grown. Like, it's done. You did your job. Get to know your kid. There are so many families— I have long-term clients, clients that come in for a season— and they are so upset that their family of origin still treats them like a little kid, right? And they're in their 50s, right? For example. So get to know who your child is beyond who you know them to be, because we need to transition you into an adult-adult relationship, because the parent-child dynamics won't work. And again, I have clients in their 40s, in their 50s, in their 60s, and their parents are still treating them like children, and they still feel like a child around their parents. And oh my God, stop the freaking madness. That is no way to live.