Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children

by Ruth Nemzoff

Overview

&&LP&&RParents make enormous sacrifices helping children become healthy and autonomous adults. And when children are older, popular wisdom advises parents to let go, disconnect, and bite their tongues. But increasing life spans mean that parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: letting go is not an option for families anymore.&&L/P&&R&&LP&&RDr. Ruth Nemzoff--a leading expert in family dynamics--empowers parents to create close relationships with their adult children, while respecting their independence. Based on personal stories as well as advice that she has accrued from years of coaching, this lively and readable book shows parents how to&&L/P&&R

communicate at long distances discuss financial issues without using money as a form of control speak up when disapproving of an adult child's partner or childrearing practices handle adult children's career choices or other midlife changes navigate an adult child's interreligious, interracial or same sex relationships

&&LP&&RNo other book treats the challenges of parent and adult offspring relationships as part and parcel of a healthy family dynamic. This practical guide will help parents play a vital and positive role in their children's lives.&&L/P&&R

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230614109
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	08/05/2008
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	328,217
File size:	307 KB

About the Author

Dr. Ruth Nemzoff is a resident scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center and lectures widely on family dynamics. Her papers are archived at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University where she also holds a doctorate in social policy. She has served three terms in the New Hampshire legislature and is the mother of four adult children. She lives in Newton, MA with her husband Harris Berman.

Ruth Nemzoff is the author of Don't Bite Your Tongue, and a popular speaker on the topic of parenting adult children and family dynamics, including at the AARP. Ruth was profiled or interviewed for many national and local papers and radio and television, including The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Jewish Advocate, and InterFaith Family. She is a resident scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center, and lives in Boston, MA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ambiguity * Don't Let Go, Don't Bite Your Tongue * Know Yourself * Say Goodbye to Fantasy and Welcome Reality * Emerging Adulthood * Refilling the Nest * Relationships * Weddings * Grandparenting * Money * Triangles * Communication Tips * Yours to Write