How to Raise Your Adult Children: Because Big Kids Have Even Bigger Problems

Susan Ende · Gail Parent

Aug 2010 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Karen White

About this audiobook

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 his or her 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.

Ratings and reviews

I don't think it is a joke that people who have to wear a diaper to save embarrassment.

About the author

Susan Ende, M.F.T, is a psychotherapist and has taught at the California Institute of Technology, Pepperdine University, and California State University at Los Angeles.

Gail Parent is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer and the bestselling author of Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York.

Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards.