I'm Still Your Mother: How to Get Along With Your Grown-Up Children for the Rest of Your Life

By Jane Adams PhD
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Published: Aug. 16, 2011
Words: 51351 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

You raised your kids to be independent, strong, and think for themselves. So now that they're grown, why is it so hard to let them? A parent coach and psychologist offers practical wisdom, sensible strategies and familiar scenarios in the words of those who've lived them in this funny, touching, empathetic guide to life with your adult children, newly updated for digital readers.

Extended description

With over half of their 20-somethings living at home full or part time, baby boomers are navigating a tricky new stage of life -
post-parenthood. Even if their adult children are out of the house, they're not out of their hearts.

Jane Adams, best-selling author of When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us, provides
parents who want a loving, mutual relationship with their kids and their kids' kids the skills and strategies that will keep them in their lives... (Read more) With over half of their 20-somethings living at home full or part time, baby boomers are navigating a tricky new stage of life -
post-parenthood. Even if their adult children are out of the house, they're not out of their hearts.

Jane Adams, best-selling author of When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us, provides
parents who want a loving, mutual relationship with their kids and their kids' kids the skills and strategies that will keep them in their lives
even when time, distance and different life styles sometimes fray the ties that bind.

"Pragmatic, dead honest and compassionate,Adams is my favorite guide to life's transitions.Witty and wise, with sage advice, a sense of humor
and perspective about mothering." Dr. Pepper Schwartz

"Warm, touching, wise and practical. This is a lively and useful book by a person who's been there and lives there still - the uncharted land of postparenthood." Dr. Edward Hallowell

"By turns hilarious and touching, I'm Still Your Mother offers practical guidelines on navigating the uncertain waters of maternity when the
mothering years ebb.This book will be of enormous help to mothers who
want to maintain both closeness to and healthy distance from their grown children." Victoria Secunda Ph.D.

"Groundbreaking!Should be required reading for every parent of grown children. Jane Adams hits a nerve in this provocative, juicy, funny, and
practical guide to the most challenging stage of parenting." Dr. Barbara Mackoff

"She reassuringly charts the territory of parent and adult child relationships with candor, warmth, wisdom and humor." Dr.Jean Okimoto
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generations, generation gap, adult children, baby boomer parents, grown kids, parenting postadolescents, postponed adulthood, entitled generation, 30 is the new 21, postparenting, postparenthood, postparents

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