Cathy Jones Kidult Parent Quiz
A DWC Magazine Tool
Are You a Kidult Parent?
It is 6:30pm on a Saturday. They are 23, dressed, phone in hand, asking for a lift. You say yes, because for twenty minutes they are in your car and you get to talk. That moment sits at the heart of Cathy Jones's cover story for DWC Weekly Issue 93, The Rise of the Kidult.
A kidult is an adult, often in their twenties or thirties, who still leans on the patterns of an earlier stage of life. Longer education, rising living costs and delayed milestones have stretched that stage further than it used to run, and parents are left with a question many carry quietly: are we helping, or are we enabling? Cathy's answer is that parenting changes shape at 18 rather than ending, and that the real shift is from raising them to respecting who they are becoming.
Cathy is a resilience advocate and the founder of Human and Trying, a platform for emotionally overwhelmed adults building real-world resilience. Her work is rooted in emotional honesty and gentle resets, with support offered free of shame or toxic positivity.
This quiz turns her question back on you. Five questions, no wrong answers. Each answer leans towards one of four patterns, and your result comes with a short read of what that pattern looks like in practice and three small things worth trying this month.
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Whatever your result, none of these patterns is a failure. Each one is love finding its way through a stage of parenting nobody prepared us for. Cathy's two pieces in DWC Weekly Issue 93, on the kidult dance and on overthinking and resilience, go further into what each one asks of us.