Young parents get a lot of empathy and understanding from others when they are in the thick of the often physically demanding job of being a parent to small energetic children. Parents of teenagers also get empathy for what can often be a taxing emotional season of parentings, but an often overlooked group of parents are those whose children have left the home and how these parents are learning to adjust their parenting style of being full-time caregivers to more of a mentor role that sometimes their children appreciate and sometimes they don’t.