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How to Raise Your Adult Children: Real-Life Advice for When Your Kids Don't Want to Grow Up

by Gail Parent

A guide to the shifting boundaries of parenting grown children

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A guide to the shifting boundaries of parenting grown children

Parenting does not necessarily end when children leave high school, and this guide addresses the practical negotiations that can follow. It takes up questions of money, adult children returning to the family home, curfews for college students living at home, concerns about a partner or marriage, and grandparents being asked to provide childcare. The book frames these situations as emotionally and financially fraught, combining advice with humor from Gail Parent and psychotherapeutic perspective from Susan Ende. Its subject is the changing line between helping adult children and managing the demands that can accompany continued dependence.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents navigating financial requests from adult children
  • Families adjusting to adult children living at home
  • Grandparents facing regular childcare expectations

Themes

Parent-adult child boundariesFinancial dependenceMultigenerational family rolesLiving at homeFamily advice

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Book overview

In this irreverent guide, a bestselling comedy writer and noted psychotherapist teach parents how to handle their grown kids.

There are many books out there to teach you how to handle your children after they graduate from diapers, but none tells you how to proceed once they graduate from high school. As new patterns emerge in the lives of young adults, parents find that their grown children have bigger problems than they did just a few years ago.

How to Raise Your Adult Children is a manual for anxious moms and dads. Whether confronting the question of setting a curfew for a college kid at home, or paying for a forty-year-old daughter's wedding, two "been there, done that" moms give advice with an edge on a variety of emotionally and financially perilous situations, including:


- Your kid needs money-your money
- Your kid moves back home and stays home
- You know your child should not marry their significant other
- Your big children keep dumping their little children on you

Combining the wit of Emmy Award-winning writer Gail Parent and the insight of psychotherapist Susan Ende, this book answers questions most parents never imagined they would have to ask.
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