Adams, Jane
When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go of Their Problems Loving Them Anyway and Getting on With Our Lives
- ISBN 13:
- 9780743232814
- author:
- Adams, Jane
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Free Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2004
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 133mm X 210mm
- Genre:
- Advice on parenting
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting on with Our Lives As parents, we've invested our hopes and dreams in our adult children, expecting them to thrive and grow into happy, healthy, successful adults. But what happens when they struggle, battle depression or addiction, or return home unable to face independence? This book confronts the painful gap between parental hopes and the harsh reality of adult children who are stuck, struggling, or spiraling out of control. With empathy and insight, the author, a social psychologist, explores the complex emotions and challenges that come with parenting grown children who are struggling. She offers a positive, life-affirming message to parents who are still trying to "fix" their adult children, showing how to separate from their problems without separating from them, and how to be a positive force in their lives while getting on with their own. By navigating the critical passage of second adulthood and their first, this book reminds us that the pleasures and possibilities of postparenthood should not depend on how our kids turn out, but on how we do.
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