Parenting for the Launch

Parenting for the Launch
Author: Dennis Trittin
Publisher: Lifesmart Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780983252672

Key strategies for parents of teens in the crucial window before that "launch" into the real world. Learn how to set them up for success through effective communication, valuing and cultivating their unique strengths, and empowering versus control. Help your teens build a strong personal leadership foundation that will enable them to live successful, independent lives of purpose, integrity, and impact.

Failure to Launch

Failure to Launch
Author: Mark McConville, Ph.D.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0525542191

From an expert in adolescent psychology comes a groundbreaking, timely, and necessary guide for parents of the 2.2 million young adults in America who are struggling to find their way in the world. In Dr. Mark McConville's decades of experience as a family clinical psychologist, perhaps no problem has been more fraught than that of young adults who fail to successfully transition from adolescence into adulthood. These kids--technically adults--just can't get it together: They can't hold a job, they struggle to develop meaningful relationships, and they often end up back in their parents' spare bedroom or on the couch. In fact, studies show that one in four Americans aged twenty-five to thirty-four neither work nor attend school, and it's a problem that spans all socioeconomic and geographic boundaries. McConville investigates the root causes of this problem: Why are modern kids "failing to launch" in ever-increasing numbers? The key, McConville has found, is that they are struggling with three critical skills that are necessary to make the transition from childhood to adulthood--finding a sense of purpose, developing administrative responsibility, and cultivating interdependence. In Failure to Launch, McConville breaks these down into achievable, accessible goals and offers a practical guide for the whole family, to help parents instill those skills in their young adults--and to get their kids into the real world, ready to start their lives.

What I Wish I Knew At 18

What I Wish I Knew At 18
Author: Dennis Trittin
Publisher: Lifesmart Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Young adults
ISBN: 9780983252603

Offers advice to teens designed to help them make wise choices as they move into adulthood, challenging them to think about the purpose of their lives, their passion, gifts, and goals, with discussion of character, relationships, career selection, spiritual life, handling adversity, finances, and other topics.

Parenting Your Emerging Adult

Parenting Your Emerging Adult
Author: Varda Konstam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2013
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780882824321

Offers parents tools for ensuring their young adults are independent, self sufficient, and well-informed so that they can discuss contentious subjects, make sound decisions, and find effective solutions to problems.

Unexpected

Unexpected
Author: Alison Piepmeier
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147986546X

What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices When Alison Piepmeier—scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome—died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring the important research of their friend and colleague, as well as adding new perspectives to her work. Based on interviews with parents of children with Down syndrome, as well as women who terminated their pregnancies because their fetus was identified as having the condition, Unexpected paints an intimate, nuanced picture of reproductive choice in today’s world. Piepmeier takes us inside her own daughter’s life, showing how Down syndrome is misunderstood, stigmatized, and condemned, particularly in the context of prenatal testing. At a time when medical technology is rapidly advancing, Unexpected provides a much-needed perspective on our complex, and frequently troubling, understanding of Down syndrome.

Doing Life with Your Adult Children

Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Author: Jim Burns, Ph.D
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310353793

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition. If you've raised a child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated--your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact. Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he's received over the years, including: My child's choices are breaking my heart--where did I go wrong? Is it OK to give advice to my grown child? What's the difference between enabling and helping? What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home? What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood? How do I relate to my grown child's significant other? What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries? How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values? Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

The Christian Parenting Handbook

The Christian Parenting Handbook
Author: Scott Turansky
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1400205190

With parenting advice coming at you from so many sources, how do you know what to listen to and what to ignore? Develop your own biblical philosophy of parenting and use it to filter the many ideas that come your way.

Feeding the Mouth That Bites You

Feeding the Mouth That Bites You
Author: Kenneth Wilgus
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514762370

"There are times when parenting seems nothing more than feeding the mouth that bites you." - Peter De VriesParenting teenagers can be hard. Maybe you already know that. The question is, does adolescence really need to be a frustrating time for parents and teenagers? If your child isn't a teenager yet, can you make preparations now to avoid many of the pitfalls parents of adolescents go through? With so much information and differing viewpoints, how can a parent really know that they are "doing it right?"In Feeding The Mouth That Bites You, Dr. Ken Wilgus outlines a clear and practical path through the confusion of parenting adolescents in today's world. Engaging, accessible, and funny, Feeding The Mouth That Bites You summarizes Dr. Wilgus's best teachings on how to parent teenagers, collected over twenty-five years of work with adolescents and their families as well as two decades of teaching on parenting.Though trends and technology will always change, the adolescent need for autonomy remains the one foundational issue that is the largest obstacle to a healthy parent/teenager relationship. Feeding The Mouth That Bites You explains this need and the effect it has on a wide range of teenage behavior. Dr. Wilgus clearly outlines his method for safely and effectively meeting this need: Planned Emancipation. Once parents clearly understand adolescents' needs and know how to respond, parenting a teenager becomes much less frustrating. Even their teenagers join in to help out!Knowing what your teenager needs and being able to provide for that need is truly the art of Feeding The Mouth That Bites You.

Rise of the Girl

Rise of the Girl
Author: Jo Wimble-Groves
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0241555442

Help your daughter fulfil her potential and achieve success in a challenging world. Does your beautiful, talented daughter constantly put herself down? Is she stuck in a cycle of comparing herself to others? Is she silent, withdrawn or argumentative when she comes home from school? Would she rather stay alone in her room than join a family day out? These are all signs that your daughter is struggling to cope with the demands of modern life. By following the advice in this book, you can help her to see how great she is, and how much greater she can become: a confident, resilient girl who is not afraid to aim high, work hard and bounce back. Inside the pages of this inspirational parenting book, you'll discover: - Practical advice for parents and carers of girls aged 6-11 - Action plans for 7 key areas of your daughter's social, emotional, and mental health - Guided dialogues with customisation options to make them age-appropriate - Practical parenting tips for raising a girl - Inspirational accounts from famous mums, dads, and daughters Successful entrepreneur, blogger and mum, Jo Wimble-Groves, identifies the 7 most common issues holding girls back from reaching their full potential - including poor self-esteem, peer pressure and fear of failure. With Jo's guided conversation starters and inspiring accounts from successful personalities, you will empower your daughters to face the challenges of childhood and prepare them for an amazing adulthood, as tomorrow's dreamers, doers and entrepreneurs.

Fledge

Fledge
Author: Brenda L. Yoder
Publisher: Herald Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781513802367

Your kids are spreading their wings. Are you ready?In Fledge, counselor, educator, and mother Brenda L. Yoder helps Christian parents navigate the many transitions of the launching years. How do you parent tweens at home and young adults away from home at the same time? What’s a good balance between boundaries and freedom? How can you pray for your fledgling youth? And what do you do with all that mom grief?Your job as a parent isn’t over; it’s just changing. Equip yourself with biblical wisdom for this season of transition in your family life. Learn the patterns to avoid and the habits to pursue. Launching your children can be scary, and some days it might make you crazy. But you’ve been raising them to do just this. Fledge will help you release your children into the future that God has planned for them.