Synopses & Reviews
More than 10 years after Parenting Your Adult Child was published, much has changed— including young adults themselves, and even their parents. Economic upheavals, challenges to traditional values and beliefs, and the phenomenon of over-involved "e;helicopter parenting,"e; all make relating to grown children more difficult than ever.
Yet at the same time, being a parent of an adult child can bring great rewards. This revised and updated version of Dr. Gary Chapman's and Dr. Ross Campbell's message will help today's parents explore how to really love their adult child in today's changing world. The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children and adult children themselves with their own stories. An online study guide is also available.
Synopsis
Parenting doesn't end when your child hits 21. It just moves into a new phase.
The role of a parent lasts a lifetime. Your kids will always be in your life. The trick is figuring out how to adapt to the new phases in that parent-child relationship. No question, it can be tricky. And if you fail to navigate that transition well, the result will be stress, alienation, and maybe a broken relationship.
But it doesn't have to be that way. In How to Really Love Your Adult Child, Dr. Gary Chapman--author of the worldwide bestseller The 5 Love Languages(R)--teams up with clinical psychiatrist Dr. Ross Campbell to provide the insights you need when your child moves into young adulthood. You'll find help for those moments when:
- Your adult child isn't succeeding
- Your nest isn't emptying
- Your child moves back home
- You have conflict over lifestyle issues
- You become an in-law or grandparent
- And much more . . .
The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children, as well stories from adult children who relate what works best for them. An online study guide is also available.
Stop wondering how to connect with your adult child. Instead, learn to love them in the ways they so desperately want. Because while childhood is temporary, parenting is forever.
About the Author
GARY CHAPMAN, PhD, is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling
The 5 Love Languages. With over 30 years of counseling experience, he has the uncanny ability to hold a mirror up to human behavior, showing readers not just where they go wrong, but also how to grow and move forward. Dr. Chapman holds BA and MA degrees in anthropology from Wheaton College and Wake Forest University, respectively, MRE and PhD degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has completed postgraduate work at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.
ROSS CAMPBELL, M.D., is the author of the bestselling book How to Really Love Your Child, which has sold more than one million copies. He has spent over 30 years as a clinical psychiatrist, concentrating on the parent-child relationship. Today he works with the Ministering to Ministers Foundation, serving individual ministers, their families, and church organizations. Dr. Campbell is the co-author of The Five Love Languages of Children and Parenting Your Adult Child and author of How to Really Love Your Teenager. Dr. Campbell resides in Signal Mountain, Tennessee.