Offers parents tools for ensuring their young adults are independent, self sufficient, and well-informed so that they can discuss contentious subjects, make sound decisions, and find effective solutions to problems.
Designed to help you make the most of the next 52 weeks of a child's life, this series includes one guide per year, from Parenting Your New Baby through Parenting Your Emerging Adult.
nly connect,” wrote E. M. Forster almost a hundred years ago, but he could have been talking to the lion's share of today's boomer parents. The vestigial parenting arm still wants to reach out even after kids have left the nest, ...
The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children and adult children themselves with their own stories. An online study guide will also be available.
How to forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in parenting along the way. How to move into an adult/adult relationship with this amazing person you have raised. The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.
In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition.
“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Here are ways to nurture our adult children while encouraging their independence and maturity. Learn to have balance. Here is how to respond to them in times of struggle.
Here are ways to nurture our adult children while encouraging their independence and maturity. Learn to have balance. Here is how to respond to them in times of struggle.
wrote journalist Barbara Smalley. She quoted psychologist Susan RobinsonWhelen, senior author of the OSU study: “Just because people don't always see the bright side of everything doesn't mean they expect bad things to happen to them.
Relevant to parents of toddlers as well as of twentysomethings-and of special value to parents of teens-this book is a rallying cry for those who wish to ensure that the next generation can take charge of their own lives with competence and ...