Looking for inspirational quotes about releasing your grown child? We have rounded up the best collection of letting go of your grown child quotes, sayings, messages, captions, (with images and pictures) to help you worry less about your adult children and let them live their own life.

As parents one is always over protective and concerned for their kids. Even if your child grows up and is an adult, you can never stop worrying about them and their future. Life can be tough at times and everyone has to face the challenges.

We always want our children no matter how much they age, to be protected under our guidance and keep them away from any pain and struggles of life. We have seen their innocent sides and know their weaknesses too.

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So often we feel they are too naïve, to go in the real world and deal everything on their own. But life is a good teacher. It teaches us all how to survive and we all evolve in the process. We do things, we fail, we fall, and then we learn.

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These encouraging words will help you as a parent to let go of your grown child, give them space and live them their life with freedom and responsibility.

We have divided these heartfelt quotes in these sections;

• Letting Go Of Your Grown Child Quotes
• Letting Go Of You Daughter Quotes
• Mothers Letting Go Of Their Son Quotes

If you could relate to these quotes, then also read when children hurt their parents quotes and break their heart.

Letting Go Of Your Grown Child Quotes

1. “Dear parents, eventually I have to grow up, and you have to let go.”
   

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2. “No one tells you that the hardest part of motherhood is when your kids grow up.”
   

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3. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Henry Ellis
   

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4. “There is nothing more special than seeing your kids grow up to be the best person they can be.”
   

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5. “Raising your child well is hard. But learning to let them go out into the world and prove that you did your job right is even tougher.” – J. Craine                                     
   

   

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6. “I think it’s necessary to let kids get bored once in a while – that’s how they learn to be creative.” – Kim Raver
   

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7. “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” – Hodding Carter, Jr.
   

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8. “I am a parent; how can I let go of my adult children? Why is it so difficult to let go of your children when they grow….”
   

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9. “Letting go does not mean abandoning your child. It means allowing your child to learn responsibility and to feel capable.”                                                                   
   

   

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10. “Anyone who’s a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.” – Tony Dungy
    

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11. “Foster parents often model parenting skills for the biological parents and may become friends of the family.” – Barbara Zimmerman
    

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12. “When our grown kids disappoint us – Letting go of their problems, loving them always, and getting on with out lives.” – Jane Adams
    

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13. “You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.” – P.J. O’ Rourke
    

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14. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank
    

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15. “As a parent, you quickly realize that life is one long series of letting go: watching your kid crawl, then walk, then run, and then drive away.” – Deborah Mitchell
    

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16. “To raise a child, who is comfortable enough to leave you, means you’ve done your job. They are not ours to keep, but to teach how to soar on their own.” – Unknown                                                                                                                                 
    

    

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17. “Being a good parent requires knowing when to push and when to back off when to help and when to let them make mistakes and then being strong enough to watch them go.”
    

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18. “There comes a time in a parents life, when you need to let go of your child’s hands and hope to God they have learned the lessons we as parents have taught them!” – Unknown                                                                                                             
    

    

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19. “In order for children to learn how to do hard things, you have to let them go through hard times. There is no way to truly master something without experiencing it.” – Sara Bean
    

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20. “Letting go is never easy. There is no short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It’s not easy and it’s likely to hurt, but it is for the best.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli
    

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21. “The actions of adult child today are not a reflection of the parent yesterday. We as adult are 100% responsible for our own actions and life, so let go of the attachment to blame others for what we do.” – Di Riseborough
    

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22. “Our parents never seemed able to grasp the reality of the fact that we had grown from dependent children, to capable, responsible adults. They did not recognize or appreciate our abilities, responsibilities or contributions to the outside world.”
    

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23. “One of the greatest problems is to have my parents see me as an adult, not as a child who doesn’t know the best way to do things. As a child, I played a specific role in my family. Now as an adult, I wish to change my role, but they will not allow it.”
    

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24. “There’s difference between goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is “I’ll see you again when I’m ready to hold your hand, and when you’re ready to hold mine. Letting go is “I’ll miss your hand. I realized it’s not mine to hold, and I will never hold it again…”
    

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25. “It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn’t mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.” – Iyanla Vanzant
    

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26. “I didn’t want to invade his privacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted him to be a child forever. She glanced up, crying harder now. But you can’t do that, if you’re a parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up.” – Jodi Picoult
    

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27. “Everytime you think that letting go of your children once they grow up is hard, look at the trees…. They have been letting go of their leaves for ages. Leaves which once were part of them, but will neither be that from then on, nor will get back to being a part of them like before. Ever again….” – Diti Swain
    

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28. “We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity.” – Henry Scougal
    

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29. “With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.” – Wendy Lustbader
    

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30. “You can’t “let go”. You can’t “detach with love”. You can’t let them “hit bottom”. You can’t seem to implement the strategies you have learned when you are faced with your adult child’s chaos and anxiety. When you try to do this, it makes you physically and emotionally ill, and the anxiety and fear becomes unbearable.” – Mary Crocker Cook
    

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31. “One day, when my children are grown, I hope they still come through that front door without knocking. I hope they head to the kitchen for a snack, and rifle through the mail looking for a magazine they always read. I hope they come in and feel the weight of adulthood leave them, for they are home. For my children, my door will forever be open.”
    

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32. “You’ve got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won’t learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won’t know how to take care of their grown selves. They won’t even know where the aspirin is kept.” – Anne Lamott
    

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33. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

Letting Go Of You Daughter Quotes

Worried when your little princess is a grown up adult and ready to move out for college, marriage, or future life? We all feel this way.

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We control our kids and are super protective for them. We want our daughters to be safe and away from all the obstacles of life. But life is to be lived by everyone on their own. We can be there to guide them,  but we can’t live their challenges.

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Give your daughter the confidence and the power to be free and experience life with responsibility. Instead of worrying all the time, empower her to evolve and take decisions for herself. This will help her life-long, and teach her to live life on her own.

1. “A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.” – Banksy
   

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2. “Let go of your daughter with grace and you’ll find her calling on you with joy.” –  Cheryl Barker                                                                                                                                                                     
   

   

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3. “There are two gifts we should give our children. one is roots the other is wings.” – Author Unknown
   

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4. “Mothering is a mysterious task. First you create an intimate, all-consuming attachment with your daughter, then you spend the rest of your life learning to let her go.” – Judy Ford
   

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5. “I think the hardest thing for a mother is to make it possible for a child to be independent and at the same time let the child know how much you love her, how much you want to take care of her, and yet how truly essential it is for her to fly on her own.” – Madeleine Albright

Mothers Letting Go Of Their Son Quotes

Mothers are so attached to their son that they find it difficult at times to let them be on their own. But your grown up son will be fine, they will make mistakes, learn and grow in the process. Also check out parents and child relationship quotes that you will relate to.

Letting go means to give them freedom to take responsibility of their life for education, wedding, work, and life. Also check selfish parents quotes and images.

1. “To a mother, a son is never a fully grown man; and a son is never a fully grown man until he understands and accepts this about his mother.” – Unknown
   

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2. “To My Son: Never feel that you are alone. No matter how near or far apart. I am always right there in your heary. Just believe in yourself and remember you only fail when you stop trying. Never forget that whatever you go through no matter what I will always love.”
   

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3. “Mother felt my leaving home was an insult to her. She couldn’t let go, couldn’t realize I needed to become an independent person, couldn’t understand that I no longer needed her physical help, although I did need her as a person. Quite unintentionally she retarded my growing up by 35 years.”

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