Winning At Home: Differences If you’ve followed this column for any length of time, you know that my four children are adults now, which means my wife and I are empty nesters. Three of our four adult children have kids of their own, and we have six grandchildren. My son and daughter-in-law, who live out of state, were recently in town with their two kids. So, we had all of the kids and grandkids together several times over the past couple of weeks. During that time, do you know what really stood out (other than how tired I was)? They all parent differently!