Yesterday, the Boston Globe reprinted an edited transcript of a conversation between Michelle Singletary and Tim Prosch, author of “The Other Talk: A Guide to Talking with Your Adult Children About the Rest of Your Life.”
The point of the "other talk" concept is that aging parents begin to share control of their lives with their adult children. Prosch recommends the talk “is something you should do every year because things change. Your health
changes, your finances change, your kids’ jobs change, and your
opinions expressed in that first talk may change. So it’s important that
you maintain the dialogue by sitting down annually and going through
the talk.”
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