Family for Life

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McGraw Hill Professional, 23/05/2003 - 256 páginas

When the kids you told to Grow up! really do...

Pat yourself on the back! You survived the harrowing sleepless nights nursing high fevers and waiting up for your kids to come home from their first date. The hard part is over, and now it's time to sit back, relax, and reap the rewards of those countless Saturday mornings spent at the soccer field. Right? Wrong! Parenting doesn't automatically stop on a child's eighteenth birthday. Learn how much (or how little) advice, emotional support, and financial backing to offer adult children.

Kathy Peel, best-selling author and founder of Family Manager, Inc., draws from her three decades of professional and personal experience to guide you in your "new" role as parents of grown children. She offers positive and practical ways to help your offspring become successful adults. Each chapter offers insightful ideas as well as helpful do's and don'ts. You'll learn how to:

  • Prepare kids to leave the nest and land on their feet
  • Give support without becoming a full-time parent again
  • Be a dreambuilder, not a dreambuster
  • Repair relationships with older children and show love in ways that matter
  • Make your home a magnet so older children want to come back to visit
  • Deal with difficult in-laws
  • Be a great grandmother
  • Keep your clan connected as it expands
  • Carve out time and space for yourself as you continue to care for others

Learn how to be a great mother for a lifetime with the sage advice found in Family for Life.

 

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Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Build a Bridge Between Generations
7
Chapter 2 Prepare Kids Well for Life on Their Own
29
Chapter 3 Mend Broken Fences and Love in Ways that Matter
45
Chapter 4 Be a Dreambuilder Not a Dreambuster
71
Chapter 5 Keep the Porch Light On and the Home Fire Burning
93
Chapter 6 Keep Your Clan Connected
119
Chapter 7 How to Be a Really Great Grandparent
145
Chapter 8 Who Will Nurture the Nurturer?
179
Chapter 9 What Family Is All About
201
The Mother of All Resources
227
Parting Words
275
Index
277
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Informação bibliográfica

TítuloFamily for Life
AutorKathy Peel
EditoraMcGraw Hill Professional, 2003
ISBN0071425985, 9780071425988
Número de páginas256 páginas
  
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