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How to Raise Your Adult Children

Because Big Kids Have Even Bigger Problems

by Gail Parent and Susan Ende

How to Raise Your Adult Children

Hardcover, 288 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $25.95 | purchase

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Book Summary

Many books 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. Comedy writer Gail Parent and noted psychotherapist Susan Ende combine their wit and expertise to give advice with an edge, answering questions relating to money, the college years, living arrangements, work, dating, family rituals, marriage, in-laws, grandchildren, divorce, and aging and illness.

This book is about:

  • Adult children living with parents,
  • Adult children,
  • Parenting,
  • Family relationships,
  • Parent and adult child

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Parenting Advice For The 20-Something Years

Brian Griffith (left), shown here in 2009 at age 26, moved home with his parents, Jay and Jennifer Griffith, after losing his job. The tight job market, especially for college grads, has prompted many young adults to move back in with their parents.

November 22, 2011 Parenting used to end when the kids left home at 18. Now, more college grads are moving back home. To the rescue: new parenting books on the trials and tribulations of raising your adult child. The hottest topics? Money. And kids moving back home.

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