Adult Kids Parenting

No matter how old your child is, you’ll always be their parent. Discover how you can sustain your relationship even when you’re no longer under the same roof.

Transform your Empty Nest experience into a time of rejuvenation and growth—even if you've felt lost without your children's daily presence. Are you struggling to redefine yourself now that your children have embarked on their own journeys? Or perhaps you're wondering how to fill the quiet spaces in your life? You’re not alone. Many parents in their 40s to 60s face an identity shift when their children leave home. But this phase can also mark the beginning of one of the most liberating and rewarding chapters of your life.

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.

Discover the power of enduring and enriching relationships with your adult children in "Thriving Connections With Your Adult Children." This guide, crafted specifically for women over 50, takes you on a journey of understanding, communication, and celebration of family bonds. Benefits: · Gain insights and advice to navigate adult parent-child relationships. · Learn communication strategies that foster openness and understanding. · Develop emotional intelligence for smoother interactions. · Empower your adult children while staying connected. · Celebrate milestones and create cherished ...

When it comes to a child's sense of family, what divorce breaks apart, solid co-parenting rebuilds. With a tested "here's how" approach, The Co-Parents' Handbook helps parents confidently take on the challenges of raising children in two homes. Addressing parents' questions about the emotional impact of separation, conflict, grief and recovery, the authors skillfully provide a road map for all members of the family to safely navigate through separation/divorce and beyond.

In Launching Financial Grownups, popular personal finance expert Bobbi Rebell gets candid about the very real-life challenges of getting young adults to choose to be financial grownups and develop their own financial foundation and security. She shares her own personal setbacks and solutions (both from her own past, and as a parent), and walks listeners through the ups and downs of financial adulting milestones.

As a parent, your role changes drastically after your kids grow up. You fear heartache and strained relationships when your children choose difficult—even seemingly wrong—paths. Love, Pray, Listen is the gracious, practical resource you need for navigating the rocky terrain of parenting grown-ups. Mary DeMuth offers a robust theology for long-term parenting gleaned from the discipleship model Jesus exemplified, one carefully applying his way of expressing love. This is your invitation for spiritual growth and a path toward fulfilling relationships with your adult children.

Today's Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and paradoxically are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. Artificial Maturity addresses the problem of what to do when parents and teachers mistake children's superficial knowledge for real maturity. The audiobook is filled with practical steps that adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their abilities with authentic maturity.

There's a new set of 3Rs for our kids - respect, responsibility, and resilience - to better prepare them for life in the real world. Once developed, these skills let kids take charge, and let parents step back, to the benefit of all. Casting hover mothers and helicopter parents aside, Vicki Hoefle encourages a different, counterintuitive, yet much more effective, approach to parenting: for parents to sit on their hands, stay on the sidelines - even if duct tape is required!

Witty and straight-shooting, Duct Tape Parenting entertains as it informs parents how to do less in order to raise more confident, capable children.

Parents, teachers, therapists, and anyone who cares about a child or teen on the autism spectrum needs this essential roadmap to prepare our youth for being successful adults in today's world. Best-selling author, autism advocate, and animal science professor Dr. Temple Grandin joins psychologist and autism specialist Dr. Debra Moore in spelling out the steps you can take to restore your child's hope and motivation, and what you must avoid.

How do today's parents cope when the dreams we had for our children clash with reality? What can we do for our 20- and even 30-somethings who can't seem to grow up? Who can we turn to when the kids aren't all right and we, their parents, are frightened, frustrated, resentful, embarrassed, and especially, disappointed? In this groundbreaking book, a social psychologist who's been chronicling the lives of American families for over two decades confronts our deepest concerns when our grown kids have failed to thrive.

The End Is Near helps parents find exactly what they want to do with their life once their kids are grown. Amie Eyre Newhouse combines her 24 years as a registered nurse helping patients make extraordinarily difficult medical decisions with her personal experience of surviving breast cancer and childhood trauma, along with her own journey from full-time parent to empty nester together, in order to help parents find their life’s purpose beyond parenting.

Packed full of practical strategies and daily habits for understanding anxiety and ADHD, this compilation of books will empower you and your child. With the right awareness and some simple and straightforward practices and methodologies for navigating anxiety and ADHD, you and your child can work together to move past all the avoidance, unnecessary tears and stress. With these professional insights, you and your child can both relax into a whole new way of living—with more joy, more smiles, and a whole new understanding.

In today's tech-saturated world, parenting is more challenging than ever. Aliza Payne's "Parenting Glow Kids" offers a concise and practical guide to navigating the digital landscape and raising well-rounded, tech-savvy children. This essential resource equips parents with the tools and knowledge needed to foster healthy relationships with technology, ensuring their children grow into responsible and resilient individuals.

Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School guides parents through the challenging and often unfamiliar landscape of raising kids who have been labeled with learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, and more. Drawing from her own experience as a parent of a child with learning differences - who is now a highly successful adult - the author outlines clear lessons from a quarter century of advocating for kids who learn differently.

Adolescents, especially those in their early teens, have daily anxiety-producing issues. Indeed, many youngsters are more prone to anxiety attacks than most adults. With the pressures of academic success, biological changes in the bodies, changes in their social life and the looming arrival of adulthood, adolescents often have a harder time dealing with many of the disturbing things presented to them in today’s world.

Audrey "Sunshine" Monke, mother of five and camp owner-director, shares nine powerful parenting techniques - inspired by the research-based practices of summer camp - to help kids thrive and families become closer. Research has proven that kids are happier and gain essential social and emotional skills at camp.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning, the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Longtime editor in chief Christine French Cully has curated a collection of this remarkable correspondence (letters, emails, and poems) in Dear Highlights - revealing an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America’s children and its leading children’s magazine.

Depression can alter your life in ways that make it seem impossible to regain control. This guide is going to show you what triggers depression and how you can do your best to recognize the signs to fill your life with things that are positive and helpful. By maintaining a mindful approach, you will realize that your depression does not have to overcome you. In fact, you are far more powerful than you realize. When you can take a proactive step toward happiness, you are proving to yourself that you do have what it takes to get better and to feel better.

Are you struggling to make your kid behave in public? Is your child always throwing temper tantrums in restaurants, airplanes or toy stores? Do you always find yourself on the receiving end of complaints about your kid’s bad behavior in school? Raising a child is an ongoing challenge and it’s your responsibility to help your little one develop into a useful member of society, a self-confident individual, and a happy person. Here’s how you can raise happy kids and transform them into thriving, successful adults!