This upbeat, positive guide for parents of adult children approaches parenting as a lifelong process -- one that continues through adulthood. Psychologists Lois and Joel Davitz have studied child, adult, and family behavior for forty years and value loving family relationships. In Getting Along (Almost) With Your Adult Kids: A Decade-by-Decade Guide, they tell parents about the development that generally occurs during the life of an adult child and offer positive and constructive solutions to common difficulties and conflicts that arise between parents and their adult children. Whether you are tackling specific conflicts with your adult children, want to cultivate great relationships that last a lifetime, or just want to gain some perspective on adult family interactions, this book will help you every step of the way. Book jacket.
Addresses tough questions teens ask dealing with issues of faith, death, sexuality, contraception, divorce, family, etc., and provides responses to these questions based on fundamental Christian values.
Being a parent to teenagers can often be an overwhelming job. Longtime psychologists, educators, and parents Lois and Joel Davitz offer sound and reassuring advice in this easy-to-read book that focuses on some of the major concerns parents have today. Their questions come from a survey of real-life situations that parents face: relationships, communication, sadness, mood swings, conflict and crisis, money, bad influences. Their answers encourage parents to think through their particular circumstances and recognize that parents can best determine what is right for their families. The issues are unflinchingly honest. The responses are not simple. But both questions and answers are right on the mark. Book jacket.
Explains how men's and women's needs change at each stage of their lives, describes common marital problems, and suggests how spouses can make constructive adjustments
This upbeat, positive guide for parents of adult children approaches parenting as a lifelong process -- one that continues through adulthood. Psychologists Lois and Joel Davitz have studied child, adult, and family behavior for forty years and value loving family relationships. In Getting Along (Almost) With Your Adult Kids: A Decade-by-Decade Guide, they tell parents about the development that generally occurs during the life of an adult child and offer positive and constructive solutions to common difficulties and conflicts that arise between parents and their adult children. Whether you are tackling specific conflicts with your adult children, want to cultivate great relationships that last a lifetime, or just want to gain some perspective on adult family interactions, this book will help you every step of the way. Book jacket.
Marriages that last may be back in style, but no one thinks that they come easily. Only folks who take marriage as seriously as this scholarly husband and wife team would suggest that the real key to a lasting marriage is having fun together. They also insist that more communication is not always better, that you can be just too sensitive, that your marriage can survive a few good fights (if you know the rules), and that getting out of sync is not necessarily fatal. These insights are among many that they back up with their experience of over fifty years of life together and almost as many years of research into why some marriages last and why others fold. Drawing on their own life story they provide a witty and wise guide for those about to marry, those who are experiencing their own stumbling blocks, and those who want to look back with the perspective of years and a touch of laughter. For every reader there is a non-threatening questionnaire that is designed to be helpful ... and fun.
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