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When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting on with Our Lives

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.06.2004

Verlag

Simon and Schuster USA

Seitenzahl

224

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/13,8/1,4 cm

Gewicht

204 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7432-3281-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.06.2004

Verlag

Simon and Schuster USA

Seitenzahl

224

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/13,8/1,4 cm

Gewicht

204 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7432-3281-4

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us
  • Contents

    Introduction

    May I Talk to You Privately? • Whose Story Is This? • When Bad Things Happen to Good Parents • Our Dirty Little Secret • The Elephant in the Parlor

    Chapter One

    The Kids Are All Right and Other Lies Parents Tell About Their Grown Children

    The Most Privileged Generation in History -- Except Theirs • Great Expectations: Ours or Theirs • Who's in Trouble Here? • Making Them Happy Is Not Up to Us • But Can We Be Happy If They're Not?

    Chapter Two

    We're Waiting...and Waiting...and Waiting

    When We Were Their Age • Prolonging the Search for Identity -- Or Just Avoiding It? • Excuse Us, But We're Having an Identity Crisis, Too • Our Other Unfinished Task • Two Kinds of Parents, Same Kind of Kids • In Whose Good Time? • Addicted, Depressed, and Dependent: A Detour or a Final Destination?

    Chapter Three

    Whose Fault Is It, Anyway?

    The Two Myths of Parenthood • "I'll Never Make the Mistakes My Parents Made" • Wrestling Guilt to the Ground • The Echo of Our Childhoods • Regret Is Guilt Without the Neurosis • Why Wasn't I Listening? • When the Writing's on the Wall • Good Enough Is the Best We Can Do

    Chapter Four

    They're Ba-a-a-ck!

    The Never-Empty Nest • Out of Time and Out of Patience • Sparing the Help vs. Spoiling the Child • Lives Without Guideposts • Leaving No Forwarding Address

    Chapter Five

    The Challenge of Independence

    Strangled by Our Purse Strings • "Why Should They Wait Till We're Dead?" • Codependent on Dr. Spock • Parents Who Give Too Much

    Chapter Six

    Maybe We Shouldn't Have Inhaled

    The Perils of Nostalgia • It's Not the Age of Aquarius Any Longer • Is It a Symptom or a Disease? • Family Day at Rehab • Staying Out of Their Program • Doing the Wrong Thing

    Chapter Seven

    The Limits of Love

    Paying a Different Kind of Attention • Denying the Undeniable • The Real Truth About Gay Pride • Following the Pied Piper • An Alternative to What? • Who Are the Victims Here? • Forgiving the Unforgivable

    Chapter Eight

    Separating from Their Problems Without Separating from Them

    The Key to Our Survival • Thank You for Sharing • Marriages Under Fire • Blurred Boundaries, Loving Limits • But What About the Grandchildren? • Phantom Guilt and Other Crimes of the Heart

    Chapter Nine

    Reinventing Our Lives:

    The Challenge of Postparenthood

    Reinvigorating the Postparenthood Marriage • New Wine in Old Bottles • Different Times, Different Agendas • Shuffling the Deck for a New Deal

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index