As parents, we spend years helping our children find their feet.
We support them through school, university, first jobs and life’s inevitable ups and downs. But as they become adults, many parents find themselves facing a new question:
How do you continue to help without holding them back?
In the first episode of Life Beyond the Numbers, Scott Stevens is joined by Celia Dodd, award-winning journalist and author of All Grown Up: Nurturing relationships with adult children and Grand Expectations: The joys and dilemmas of being a Grandparent, to explore one of the biggest challenges facing families today: helping the next generation build confidence, resilience and financial independence.
Together, they discuss why so many young adults are taking longer to become financially established, how parents can strike the right balance between providing support and encouraging responsibility, and why some of the most valuable lessons we can pass on have little to do with money itself.
The conversation also explores family expectations, housing, careers, the Bank of Mum and Dad, and how open, honest conversations can help families make better decisions together.
Whether you’re supporting children through university, helping them onto the property ladder or simply wondering how much help is too much, this episode offers thoughtful insights, practical advice and reassurance for one of modern parenting’s greatest balancing acts.
Because the greatest gift we can leave the next generation isn’t simply financial security.
It’s the confidence to build a life of their own.
