How to Raise Your Adult Children: Real-Life Advice for When Your Kids Don't Want to Grow Up

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 Children is a manual for anxious moms and dads. Whether confronting the question of setting a curfew for a college kid at home, or paying for a forty-year-old daughter's wedding, two "been there, done that" moms give advice with an edge on a variety of emotionally and financially perilous situations, including:

- Your kid needs money-your money
- Your kid moves back home and stays home
- You know your child should not marry their significant other
- Your big children keep dumping their little children on you

Combining the wit of Emmy Award-winning writer Gail Parent and the insight of psychotherapist Susan Ende, this book answers questions most parents never imagined they would have to ask.

Author: Gail Parent, Susan Ende
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 07/26/2011
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.95w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780452297203

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2013 pg. 50
Library Journal 06/01/2012

About the Author
Gail Parent is an award-winning writer and producer whose credits include Tracey Takes On, starring Tracey Ullman, The Carol Burnett Show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and The Golden Girls. Also a bestselling novelist, Parent is the author of Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.

Susan Ende has 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.