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All Grown Up: Nurturing Relationships with Adult Children

Autor CELIA DODD
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iun 2022
When children grow up and become adults we often assume, as parents, that our job is done. In fact it's just the beginning of a whole new stage in our lifelong connection. Relationships with adult children are an aspect of parenting that is rarely discussed, yet they require thoughtfulness and empathy, and can bring many new challenges. - How can you avoid conflict when your adult child returns to live with you?- What if you don't get on with their partner?- How should you suppoer your child through a divorce, or mental health challenges later in life?- Do you have mixed feelings about looking after your grandchildren?- What if you adult children don't get along?All Grown Up draws on the personal experiences of parents, as well as advice from leading experts in the filed, to offer support and guidance on working through these common dilemmas to develop and maintain a close bond with your adult child. Discover how to create family harmony and a strong, enduring connection.Praise for Celia Dodd's Not Fade Away'Optimistic and clever, this handbook for how to flourish in your sixties - and beyond - may be the wisest book on reaching a pensionable age' - The i newspaper'As a child of the 60's, ambitious and career driven, I needed to read this book. I now no longer fear life's next chapter but instead I'm shouting "Bring it on!"' - Jo Good, BBC Radio London 'Retirement is not about "giving up". This book shows us how to discover the positives and relish every moment of this major life transition'. - Aggie MacKenzie, broadcaster and journalist.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472980762
ISBN-10: 147298076X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Green Tree
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Grandchildcare is another new norm: 97% families rely on grandparents' help (International Longevity Centre). The book shares experiences of negotiating delicate relationships between grandparents, adult children and their spouses.

Notă biografică

Celia Dodd is an author and journalist with over 30 years' experience of contributing features on family, relationships, health and education to national newspapers and magazines, including The Times, the Independent, the Daily Mail and Radio Times. This is Dodd's fourth book; previous books include The Empty Nest: how to survive and stay close to your adult child (Piatkus) and Not Fade Away: How to thrive in retirement (Bloomsbury).www.celiadodd.co.uk

Cuprins

Introduction1. Changing roles, new identities 2. The evolving relationship3. Meeting and communicating4. Living with adult children5. Crises (adult children's) 6. Crises (in parents' lives, eg divorce)7. Conflict and disagreement8. Siblings and new family dynamics. Breaking childhood patterns. 9. Partners, daughters- and sons-in law. Parents with new partners. 10. When children become parents. The impact on parent and adult child. Grandchildren.11. Long-distance relationships: when kids - or parents - live far apart.12. Children who need extra support: special needs, mental or physical health conditionsConclusion: The shifting balance: when parents need their children's support

Recenzii

At last a book to fill the gap - between "empty nesting" and "adulting with adults" - informative and kind.
Celia is a great author. [This is] much needed. covers so many different emotions and so many different topics.
[A] brilliant book on this stage of life. Celia Dodd looks at how you can deal with different issues that can occur through no fault on anyone's side.