EP – 197 Living in a Multi-Generational Household

Doug Sohn from Success After Sixty is joining the podcast to discuss his experience living in a multi-generational home. If Doug’s name sounds familiar, that is because he is a returning guest. Doug is joining us again to talk about living in a multi-generational home.

We learn that Doug and his wife have always had a full home, regardless of whether it contained six children or other people coming to live with them. As our discussion continues, we learn that Doug and his wife had moved into a retirement community, expecting they would be mostly just themselves.

Doug shares with us that his oldest son was discharged from the military while he was getting divorced. The result was that their son Brian and their three-year-old grandson, Ben, came to live with them, creating a multi-generational home.

We talk about how everyone had to work to adjust to having three generations under one roof. Some of the topics we talk about are how they have successfully created separation between Grandma/Mom – Grandpa/Dad – Son/Dad – Grandson/Son. Some of the separation of roles has created boundaries where input and advice can be shared, but that input might not be implemented with their Brain and his son Ben.

You will enjoy learning from Doug and his fantastic experience and insights about living and getting along in a multi-generational home. This conversation is full of great advice for grandfathers and grandparents who are finding themselves living in a multi-generational situation, whether temporary or permanent.

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You can watch this conversation on YouTube by clicking on this link: https://youtu.be/slDUgzAwJ5Y

Here is the link to Doug and my conversation about his work with Success After Sixty: https://cool-grandpa.us/?s=Success+After+Sixty.

Doug is providing a fantastic giveaway for the listeners of our conversation. The giveaway is Doug’s “Win Your Morning Guide.” This guide offers some useful tools and is also a great entrée into Doug’s world: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:5710ef63-adb2-3e9b-88ea-528aa8afe264

Click on this link to view the Success After Sixty website: https://successaftersixty.org/

To join the Success After Sixty Facebook group, click this link: https://www.facebook.com/successaftersixty.org.

You can follow Doug on ‘X’ by clicking this link: https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fsohn_douglas.

You can follow Doug on LinkedIn by clicking on this link: linkedin.com/in/dcsohn

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