Parents & Adult Children

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable....

Dealing with boundaries, finances, and changing values are all part of parenting your grown child. In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, Jim Burns offers practical advice and hopeful encouragement for one of the richest and most challenging seasons of parenting....

Nitta Sayuri tells us in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate of her life as a geisha...

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears....

Drawing on the success of her popular self-help book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers yet another essential resource for adult children of emotionally immature parents....

If you are an adult child of a narcissistic mother, this audiobook is for you, and if you are not sure whether your abusive mother is a pathological narcissist, you will find out....

In this remarkable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationship with your parents....

The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs.

Often, the grown children of emotionally absent mothers can't quite put a finger on what's missing from their lives....

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....

Bursting with actionable steps you can use IMMEDIATELY to transform the way you communicate, this compelling, highly effective book serves as your comprehensive guide to better communication....

A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children....

In Done with the Crying: Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children, Sheri McGregor, MA, helps parents break free from emotional pain - and move forward in their own lives....

A tough-love guide to coping with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y....

Walking on Eggshells is the much-needed road map that will keep you connected to the people you love most....

The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple best-selling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother....

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice....

Communicating with your kids should be easy, but miscommunication is easier. The longer you delay talking to your kids properly, the worst it will get as time goes by....

Jim Burns combines his personal experiences with extensive research, interviews with other empty nesters, and his professional work as a family educator to help you navigate your new life as an empty nester and find joy in the opportunities for life-change before you....

In Our Mothers, Ourselves, Henry Cloud and John Townsend show how understanding how our mothers have profoundly influenced our lives can set us on a path toward wholeness and growth....  

From the founders of the number one site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood....

You may have some great ideas about how you would like to parent your child (for instance, give him or her freedom with the hope that they will use it well). But in reality, they are just ideas....

Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged illness, this passage proves inevitably more difficult than we thought it would be....

Earley was thrown headlong into the maze of contradictions, disparities, and catch-22s that is America's mental health system....

Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances....

Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for mothers who are confronted with the unexpected and burdensome dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment. Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, this book offers accessible, provocative, and, at times, shocking illustrations of the excruciating maternal dilemma: Which takes precedence—the needs of the mother or of the distressed adult child? Difficult addresses a family situation which too many keep secret. 

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. 

You may have some great ideas about how you would like to parent your child (for instance, give him or her freedom with the hope that they will use it well). But in reality, they are just ideas. In Parenting Teens: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Successful and Responsible Teen, you will hear about situations from real families who have been in your shoes. They have been there, done that! You will learn about the feelings, experiences, and anecdotes of parents who have discovered what works for them and their teen. 

What makes parents happiest, according to influential new research, is good relationships with their adult children. This audiobook is one of the first to offer much-needed guidance on developing a strong and enduring bond with children in the decades after they’ve left home. It’s a crucial slice of family life which hopefully lasts much longer than the twenty or so years it takes to raise a child. Yet surprisingly it’s rarely discussed. 

Raising moral, responsible, and successful teenagers with a good sense of civic responsibility in the modern world is not a walk in the bag. Perhaps your kid is now getting moodier, breaking rules, immense into social media, raising their voice when you confront them, or have started exploring romantic relationships, and you are getting worried. Effective teen parenting is key. Now, you have an alternative to shouting, ineffective punishments, and micromanaging your teenagers—Parenting Teens.

Whether you've been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations, and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what? As an empty nester, the options before you are practically limitless--a fact that can be as exciting as it is terrifying. In this book, Jim Burns combines his personal experiences with extensive research, interviews with other empty nesters, and his professional work as a family educator to help you navigate your new life as an empty nester.

Picking up where her national bestseller, Dial Down the Drama, left off, Colleen O’Grady’s Dial Up the Dream supports you in navigating your daughter’s last days at home and her transition to adulthood. This emerging-adult stage can be even more stressful on both mother and daughter than the teen years, because the stakes are higher and the changes to the relationship more profound.

Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals.

There’s nothing like the pain of losing a father. The good news? You’re not alone. You might have heard of the five stages of grief, but going through them is a different matter. Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. In this detailed and accessible road map through each stage, you’ll learn about how and why we go through them. More importantly, you’ll learn how to overcome them.

This book will provide you with answers by giving you tools to be a change agent for your family. You will gain insights into your character, behavior, and thought patterns so you can identify the ways you contribute to or subtract from honoring your son. By the time you’re done listening to this book, you will have learned about yourself and the initiation and blessing ceremony I did for my sons. Hopefully, my story will spark your interest and generate ideas as you start planning to honor your son into manhood.