Adult Children have the inability to have fun and relax. It is difficult to sit still and relax. There is a need to do something and keep busy constantly. No one played with them or taught them how to play or even what the rules for playing are. They are afraid to take time off to play; they have to be always always pushing forward. They have to put all their efforts into keeping up and pushing ahead. Life is difficult and stressful because it is hard to just sit back and relax and say, “it’s O.K. to just be me.”
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Empowering Adult Children to Conquer Task Completion Challenges
Adult children have “Task Completion Challenges,” which means having difficulty following a project from beginning to end. They may have great beginnings but then have problems with full follow-through because they are doing several things at once and trying to do everything. They have problems pacing themselves and their activities, tending to become exhausted with all that they have to do.
The real problem is that they are not procrastinators in the usual sense. They came from homes of an awful lot of promises. No one took the time to sit down and say, “That is a good idea.”
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