Grown and Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults

Flatiron Books

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UPC:
9781250188946
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
9/3/2019
Release Date:
9/3/2019
Author:
Heffernan, Lisa
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Pages:
368
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PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 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 high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, drivers ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now theyve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that theyve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up toand throughhigh school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topicsuch as academics, anxiety and mental health, college lifeit features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.