Category: Parent & Adult Child

Fresh from their best-selling Worms in My Tea Other Mixed Blessing, this daughter-mother writing team examines the love, laughter, and liability of the "Sandwhich Generation ".
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Adult Children of Normal Parents

By: Jennifer Berman

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Pocket : 1994-11-01

Seller ID: 0671864890-3-25355646

ISBN-13: 9780671864897

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Caring for Your Aging Parents: When Love Is Not Enough

By: Barbara Deane

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: NavPress : 1989-08-01

Seller ID: 0891095780-3-19716357

ISBN-13: 9780891095781

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In this warm and well-researched guide, author and caregiver Barbara Deane gives the emotional support and practical advice caregivers need to provide good care--and keep from burning out in the process.
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Caring for Your Aging Parents: When Love Is Not Enough

By: Barbara Deane

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: NavPress : 1989-08-01

Seller ID: 0891095780-4-27456115

ISBN-13: 9780891095781

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

In this warm and well-researched guide, author and caregiver Barbara Deane gives the emotional support and practical advice caregivers need to provide good care--and keep from burning out in the process.
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Elder Rage or, Take My Father... Please! How To Survive Caring For Aging Parents

By: Marcell, Jacqueline

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Impressive Press : 2000-09-01

Seller ID: 096797030X-7-5240519

ISBN-13: 9780967970301

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Good

Signed by Author
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Hard Questions For Adult Children and Their Aging Parents

By: Piver, Susan

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Gotham : 2004-10-07

Seller ID: 1592400779-3-28764588

ISBN-13: 9781592400775

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

"New York Times" bestselling author Susan Piver brings her wisdom and insight to the millions of readers who must confront the process of caring for elderly parents. Witnessing the declining health of a parent, and the inevitable thoughts of mortality that accompany the process, can take a heavy emotional and physical tollaparticularly if parents and children find it awkward to communicate their fears and needs to one another. To remove the boundaries and enhance these necessary dialogues, Susan Piver applies her thought-provoking question-and-answer format to "The Hard Questions for Adult Chi...
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How to Care for Aging Parents

By: Morris, Virginia; Hansen RN MSN FAAN, Jennie Chin [Foreword]

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company : 1996-01-01

Seller ID: 1563054353-4-26984779

ISBN-13: 9781563054358

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

How do you find a nursing home? And can you pay for it? Are you eligible for any financial help from the government? How do you find a good doctor? What is the power of attorney and when do you need it? How do you avoid becoming your parent's "parent"? Virginia Morris, a health-care journalist who cared for her own father through a terminal illness, has taken a tough subject and turned it into a smart, compassionate, timely book for everyone with aging parents. It's all here-the emotional, medical, financial, and legal issues. She covers what is normal in old age and what is not, and how to av...
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How to Honor Your Aging Parents: Fundamental Principles of Caregiving

By: Johnson Ph.D., Richard

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Liguori : 1999-08-25

Seller ID: 0764804766-3-28309533

ISBN-13: 9780764804762

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Too often, people enter the role of caregiver for an aging parent unprepared, and, as a result of exhaustion, exasperation, and guilt, fail in their objective. These are not bad, lazy, negligent people. Most of the time, they simply tried to do too much. Written for any person who is caregiving or who anticipates that they will be called upon to give some form of care to an elder, this book sets out to prepare caregivers to do the best job possible to truly honor their aging parent, relative, or friend and yet not lose themselves in the process.

I'm Still Your Mother: How To Get Along With Your Grown-Up Children For The Rest Of Your Life

By: Adams, Jane

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: iUniverse : 2001-06-21

Seller ID: 0595183581-3-26352914

ISBN-13: 9780595183586

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

If You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your Place in the World

By: Neuharth, Dan

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Harper Perennial : 1999-09-08

Seller ID: 0060929324-4-28512236

ISBN-13: 9780060929329

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Dr. Dan Neuharth draws on his experience as a therapist specializing in helping adults cope with the challenges of a controlled childhood. He defines eight types of controlling parents and includes a self-test to determine if the reader grew up over-controlled. Using case studies from a diverse group of adults, Dr. Neuharth explains that unhealthy control is often a generations-old cycle that readers can break by seeing the roots of the cycle. He shows readers how to leave home emotionally so they can improve assertiveness, boundaries, and confidence, come to terms with their parents, and lead...
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Making Peace With Your Father/Includes a Step-By-Step Journal

By: Stoop, David

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Tyndale House Pub : 1993-08-01

Seller ID: 0842338853-3-26349642

ISBN-13: 9780842338851

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Exploring the significance of the father's role and how a father affects his children's development, this experienced counselor helps adults heal childhood hurts.
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Parenting Your Adult Child: How You Can Help Them Achieve Their Full Potential

By: Chapman, Gary; Campbell MD, Ross; Campbell M.D., Ross

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Northfield Publishing : 1999-01-11

Seller ID: 1881273121-3-26979029

ISBN-13: 9781881273127

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

More than 10 years after Parenting Your Adult Child was published, much has changed - including young adults themselves, as well as their parents. Economic upheavals, challenges to traditional values and beliefs, the phenomenon of over-involved "helicopter parenting" - 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...
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Parenting Your Aging Parents: How to Protect Their Quality of Life, and Yours!

By: Moskowitz, Francine; Moskowitz, Robert

Price: $5.31 USD

Publisher: Key Pubns : 1991-01-01

Seller ID: 0962441503-3-28565269

ISBN-13: 9780962441509

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The first complete guide for families struggling to care for aged loved ones. A wealth of information on every aspect of parent care-giving in any conceivable situation, including responsibility, housing, finances, medical care, emotional impact, family problems, and death-related issues.
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Restoring Relationships With Your Adult Children

By: O'Connor, Karen

Price: $4.33 USD

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc : 1993-11-01

Seller ID: 0840734433-4-28785879

ISBN-13: 9780840734433

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The key to creating closer, more meaningful relationships with grown children, writes O'Connor, is learning to relate to grown children in a new way that is more sensitive than assertive, more spiritual than custodial, more nurturing than managing. Offering parents a second chance, this book presents five steps to healing that will help those who feel guilty, angry, or confused about their relationships with their adult children.
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