7 Basic Guidelines in Mothering Your Adult Child

Being a mom changes as your child progresses in capability, awareness and age. The very hands-on mothering you give to an infant is a far cry from the nurturing you give to your adult offspring. So ,how to keep the love going and communication flowing when you are both adults with your own mindsets, karma, souls, and what-have-you?

Let us consider someone to be adult once that person has experienced her or his first Saturn return, which occurs in everyone's life at the age of 28 1/2 to 29, and repeats cyclically every 28 1/2 to 29 years. So, your "child" is now 29. How to maintain closeness while respecting each person's life journey?

1. Do everything in love. This has to be your motivating factor. Always give what you can spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, materially, and know when to let your offspring handle her or his life situations. Your offspring is also and always building character, strength and awareness, as are you.

2. Always remember to acknowledge, praise, and celebrate victories, positive actions, accomplishments. If your adult offspring feels you are always criticizing and finding fault with everything, you can be sure your offspring will tune you out. Also, know that every soul does things in their own time framework.

3. Pick wisely and carefully your time, space and place to impart any insights that may be a challenge for your offspring to hear. Say what you have to say in a loving way, for the highest good of your offspring, yourself and everyone concerned. Then let go. Listen to what your offspring has to say. Allow your offspring to take action. Avoid being in a right-wrong opposition. Instead, choose a win-win scenario, knowing that everyone has his/her own perspective and readiness factors in anything.

4. Be gently persistent without judgment if your offspring is in challenging positions, say, with addictive behavior. You can be sure that your offspring also has self-judgment, whether this is obvious or hidden. Get professional help when needed. Sometimes an intervention by someone other than you or another family member is required.

5. If your offspring is doing well, enjoy, acknowledge and give thanks. If your offspring has some area that would benefit from tweaking -- true for most people of any age -- accentuate all the easy stuff, and gently tackle the challenges. Love your offspring throughout.

6. Remember we are all souls learning lessons and sharing blessings, in a human body with emotions, physicality and past-life influences. Pray, meditate, and ask for guidance in everything you do.

7. Know when to let go and let Source and your offspring's innate soul handle whatever there is.

As simple as this sounds, these 7 Basic Guidelines in Mothering Your Adult Child will ensure you have a healthy, pleasurable, ever-evolving relationship with this wonderful soul that was either born through you, you adopted, or to whom you are a stepmom. Much continued success on the Mom Journey!!!

Love

Mama Heart
Audrye

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