How to Raise Your Adult Children by Gail Parent - ISBN: 9780452297203
Paperback
Today’s kids are taking longer to move out, tend to marry later, and are baffling their parents with issues far beyond the expertise of Spock or Ferber. This title provides advice for the millions who need help handling a range of perilous and very adult situations, including how to get a couch pota…

How to Raise Your Adult Children

Real-Life Advice for When Your Kids Don't Want to Grow Up

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    26 July 2011

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Summary

In this irreverent guide, a bestselling comedy writer and noted psychotherapist teach parents how to handle their grown kids.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 Childrenis a manual for…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780452297203
ISBN-10:0452297206
Author:Gail Parent, Susan Ende
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:Plume
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:26 July 2011
Weight:268g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm x 17mm
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Critics Review

“A great book for every parent in the world except me. I don’t need it. My Melissa is a perfect child. And if she continues to be really nice to me, I’m going to tell her which of my jewelry is real.”—Joan Rivers “I love this book. It begins where Dr. Spock left off. If only Mama had had it. Eunice wouldn’t be so aggravated.”—Carol Burnett “This is a brilliant idea! You, Gail, are the Mother of all Mothers. Why your boys, who are adults with children of their own, left home in the first place, I’ll never know. Please adopt me so I can have the funniest mum in the world.”—Tracey Ullman

About The Author

Gail Parent

Gail Parentis an award-winning writer and producer whose credits includeTracey Takes On, starring Tracey Ullman,The Carol Burnett Show,Mary Hartman, Mary HartmanandThe Golden Girls. Also a bestselling novelist, Parent is the author ofSheila Levine Is DeadandLiving in New York. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.Susan Endehas been a psychotherapist in private practice for twenty-five years and has taught at the California Institute of Technology, Pepperdine University, and California State University, Los Angeles.She lives in Pasadena, California.

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