How do you deal with a parent who treats you like a child?

Stay calm, step back, and reflect on how they are making you feel. Then decide to react in a manner that will not reinforce their image of you as a dependent child. Here are some things to try instead: When family members tease you about past behaviors you have outgrown or overcome, don’t be offended.

Should parents treat their children with respect?

Yes. Parents should respect their child because that’s how the child will learn to respect themselves. Parents serve as the first and most important role model for everything a child does now and later in life. The relationship a child has with their parents has a profound impact on the child’s development.

Why don’t parents treat their adult children as adults?

Often parents don’t treat their adult children as adults because their children don’t act like adults. It is a cycle (among many) that passes across generations. This is compounded in post modern society with the obsession with youth, the complete negation of death and the disintegration of the family in general.

How do you deal with the transition from child to adult?

The transition of a child to an adult is slow and has no obvious moment of arrival, but at some point parents need to come to terms with the fact that their children are adults and, ideally, they will express their acknowledgement that their child has become an adult by treating them as an adult.

Is there such a thing as an adult child?

The key to the question is the phrase ‘adult children.’ Obviously there is no such thing as an adult child and the phrase was probably unintentional, but herein lies the rub.

Do parents have to respect their adult children and their spouses?

Parents must respect their adult children and their spouses, regardless of whether they like them or not, even if you have differing expectations about family roles. You do not get to choose whom your children love. Respecting your son/daughter-in-law does not mean condoning or agreeing.