Bea Lewis

By Barbara Marshall

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

We've adjusted to toddler tantrums, middle-school sulkiness, adolescent defiance, even empty nests.

But now our kids want us to treat them as adults? When we're their mothers?

Part of being a mother is to know when to stop acting like one, according to Bea Lewis, a Boynton Beach writer whose specialty is successfully tiptoeing through the minefield of parent and adult child relationships, especially the combustible one between mothers and daughters.

For five years, Lewis wrote the "This Day and Age" column for The Palm Beach Post.  READ MORE...