How to Raise Your Adult Children
Because Big Kids Have Even Bigger Problems
New York : Hudson Street Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
A funny and practical guide to parenting "grown" children.
Today's "kids" are taking longer to move out, tend to marry later, and are baffling their parents with issues far beyond the expertise of Spock or Ferber.
In this irreverent yet essential guide, a bestselling writer and a psychotherapist- both of whom have adult children-team up to provide witty and insightful advice for the millions who need help handling a range of perilous and very adult situations, including
? how to get a couch potato out of the house
? when to not pay for a child's wedding
? what to say about your kids' own parenting methods
? and much, much more
Today's "kids" are taking longer to move out, tend to marry later, and are baffling their parents with issues far beyond the expertise of Spock or Ferber.
In this irreverent yet essential guide, a bestselling writer and a psychotherapist- both of whom have adult children-team up to provide witty and insightful advice for the millions who need help handling a range of perilous and very adult situations, including
? how to get a couch potato out of the house
? when to not pay for a child's wedding
? what to say about your kids' own parenting methods
? and much, much more
Contents:
Money -- The college years -- Young adults : living arrangements -- Work -- Dating -- Family rituals -- Marriage -- In-laws -- Grandchildren -- Divorce -- Aging and illness.
Subjects:
Adult children -- Family relationships.
Adult children living with parents.
Parenting.
Parent and adult child.
Adult children -- Family relationships.
Adult children living with parents.
Parenting.
Parent and adult child.
ISBN:
9781594630699
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PARENTING Stages Par | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |