In this work, clinical psychologist Mary Pipher, best know for her bestselling book REVIVING OPHELIA, draws on her case studies, interviews, and personal anecdotes to document the emotional transitions people may experience as they approach their senior years.
Packed with realistic advice for the parents of today's 14.5 million college and university students, this practical volume sets invaluable guidelines for combining essential involvement with a healthy, helpful respect for a child's independence.
In this follow-up to her book "The Power of a Praying Parent," Omartian addresses the areas of concern parents have for their grown children and shares how to lift them up to God.
Using many anecdotes from students, teachers, and administrators on the "front lines", this book leads parents through the transitional period from the junior year of high school to the senior year of college. This edition includes all-new sections on campus life, as well as the latest facts on the Internet and its impact on the admissions process ...
Renowned editor Isay delivers real-life wisdom and advice on how adult children and their parents can stay together without falling apart. Warmth and wit shine through on every page as she charts this often confusing, and at times painful, relationship.
Thoroughly revised and updated, a popular guide for parents to dealing with their feelings during their children's time away at college advises them about when to encourage their children's independence and when to come to the rescue, covering such issues as academic pressures, and homesickness to a
Do You Have An Aging Parent Who -- Blames you for everything that goes wrong?Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time?Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?Make unreasonable and/or irrational demands of you?Is hostile, negative and critical? Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their ...
With more than 35 years of experience in psychotherapy, Dr. Halpern enables the adult child to understand his or her parent and foster a positive, healthy adult relationship.
"No one book resolves a lifetime of hurts and misunderstandings, but it can remove the blinders from our eyes. Make an effort now." LOS ANGELES TIMES No matter how old you are and whether or not your parents are alive, you have to come to terms with them. This wise and practical book will show you how to deal with the most fundamental ...
A memoir by Betty DeGeneres on her strong bond with her daughter, Ellen. DeGeneres writes about family life with Ellen and her siblings, about her own struggle over time to accept the fact that her daughter was gay, and about her role as national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project.
Parenting doesn't end at 18.Has your nest not emptied? Has your adult child made lifestyle choices you don't agree with? Has becoming an in-law made you consider becoming an outlaw? Many parents today answer an exasperating 'yes' to these and many other questions that describe the frustration encountered between them and their adult children. ...
Parents make enormous sacrifices helping children become healthy and autonomous adults. And when children are older, popular wisdom advises parents to let go, disconnect, and bite their tongues. But increasing life spans mean that parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: letting go is not an option for ...
This new edition of Perfect Daughters, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other women. When this groundbreaking book first appeared over ten years ago, Dr. Ackerman identified behavior patterns shared by daughters of alcoholics. Adult daughters of alcoholics-"perfect ...
The authors identify six types of moms--the "Phantom Mom", the "China Doll Mom", the "You're My Trophy Mom", the "Controlling Mom", the "Forever Mom", and the "American Express Mom"--to show how the kind of mothering one receives and how one responds to that mothering profoundly affects an individual's ability to relate to his/her spouse, friends, ...
This Running Press Miniature Edition of our bestselling large-format book, Fathers and Sons, is packed with moving stories of this unique relationship. A treasure for anyone intrigued by the particular bonds of family, it features excerpts from essays and 30 photographs from the original book that delve into the connections between celebrity and ...
"Elegant prose...sheds new light on the father--daughter dynamic." Boston magazine There is a special bond between a father and a daughter, and when that bond is broken by death, a woman's life can change in profound and unexpected ways. In the tradition of Hope Edelman's bestselling Motherless Daughters, Clea Simon, critically acclaimed author of ...
For every woman who wishes she could talk more openly with her mother, this practical, compassionate book introduces a step-by-step plan for breaking down barriers and discussing such matters as health, money, family secrets and aging. MY MOTHER, MY FRIEND is the first book to offer realistic strategies for opening and deeepening the path of ...
Through dozens of interviews with patients and celebrities, Cleese, a psychotherapist, and Bates, a teacher of humanistic psychology, help readers deal with the issues that cause stress in their relationships with their mothers, and offer a ten-step plan for improvement.
In this charming tale of multi-generational family living, Alexander, who once had a very bad day, is all grown up, and while their house is being remodeled, he and his family all move in with his empty-nester parents.
Drawing on real-life personal experiences as well as sage advice from other mother-in-law veterans, this resource outlines proven strategies for creating and maintaining healthy relationships with married children. Key tips covered in this title include how to manage expectations from the outset, how to reduce conflict and increase contentment by ...
In this memoir, newspaper columnist Judy Kramer describes her parents' final years, illuminating the emotional challenges she faced as she became their primary caretaker. Although she had a family of her own, she devoted herself to her aging mother and father, managing their finances, overseeing their doctors' visits, and helping them become ...
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