I'm Still Your Mother

How to Get Along with Your Grown-Up Children for the Rest of Your Life

Autori

• Jane Adams

Parametri

• 240 pagine
• 9 ore di lettura

• Genitorialità
• Maternità e Genitorialità
• Saggistica

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Is there life with your kids once youve raised them? In this groundbreaking book, a best-selling author and psychologist (and the mother of grown children, too) shows you how to keep your family together for a lifetime. Dr. Spock didnt tell you about Postparenthood, but Jane Adams doesin this wise, warm, witty, commonsense guide to creating a close, loving relationship with your grown children.You raised your kids to be independent, strong, and think for themselves. So once theyre grown, why is it so hard to let them do it? Jane Adams interviewed over a hundred mothers and fathers of young adults to learn how theyve created closer, more authentic relationships with their kids than they had with their own parents. She offers practical wisdom about how to keep families together even when distance tugs at the ties that bind. Sensible tips on holding them close to your hearts while getting them out of your house. Good advice about helping them start their careers. And first-hand strategies on getting along with their mates, giving or lending them money, offering or asking advice, being a great grandparent, coming to terms with their lifestyles, and preparing both generations for the future.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2001

(In brossura)