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....

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....

The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

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

Today’s college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They’re performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they’re “supposed” to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder....

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....

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

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....  

Would you like to enhance your communication skills to grow and strengthen your relationships? If so, this book is for you....

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....

The difficulties experienced by adult children of narcissists can manifest themselves in many ways - for example, physical self-loathing that takes the form of overeating, anorexia, or bulimia....

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....

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....

Empty-nesting can be a disorienting time, but it can also become the best season of your life if you'll let it....

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....

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....

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....

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....

This unique book supports parents who are struggling with the heartache of having a teenager or an adult child who is troubled, angry, or distant....

Susan Forward's practical and powerful book will help couples cope with terrible and toxic in-laws. Toxic in-laws are in-laws who create genuine chaos through various assaults - aggressive or subtle - on you and your marriage. Toxic in-laws come in a wide variety of guises....

At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled...

Discover specific coping strategies for dealing with issues common to children of borderline parents and make the major decision whether to confront your parent about his or her condition....

Do you want to help your child develop into the person you know they can be? This audiobook will help you achieve that aim! Now you can learn the secrets that will help your children to grow and flourish with Montessori Toddler Disciplines....

Today’s college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They’re performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they’re “supposed” to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion carries over right into first jobs. What have traditionally been considered the best years of life have become the beaten-down years of life.  

Parenting is a gift that no one should take lightly. We parents tend to be caught between a rock and a hard place by constantly questioning whether we are doing the best we can at raising our children—especially when it comes to raising hormonal teenagers who show affection to you one day and yell for you to get out of their room the next. The first step to connecting to modern-day teens is listening to this book. In it, you will find some insightful perspectives and teachings on parenting teens in a way that makes them reliable and delightful future adults. 

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.