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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > Child care & upbringing > Adolescent children
One minute you are taking your child to school, the next they're
turning into a young adult. It may seem like only months since you
were first filling your child's lunch box, but the school career
moves with such momentum that it isn't long before they are facing
the challenges of further education, job hunting and living
independently. This new book will help you to encourage
self-reliance in your nearly grown children and prepare them for
independence in the real world. It also shows how you can prepare
for a time when your child's excitement at the prospect of leaving
school, going to university or just living on their own leaves you
feeling passed over and obsessed by detail they see as unimportant.
How do you start to think about what to do with the rest of your
life - picking up on ambitions, both personal and professional, and
prioritising your own friends and interests? And how do you handle
the situation when, as is increasingly common, children later
decide to return home to live? This book addresses current issues
such as boomerang kids, sofa syndrome and how to motivate, money
management for a generation disinclined to save, the hotel of Mum
and Dad, and much more. Later! is an empathetic guide to making
sense of life at a time when all the ground rules need to be
reconsidered, if not renegotiated. Packed with strategies,
exercises and question-and-answer sections, Later! is user-friendly
and entirely practical. It considers the hopes and plans of parents
and children alike and, in the process, demonstrates how to 'move
on' while sustaining a supportive, happy relationship.
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