Preparing, Adjusting, And Loving The Empty Nest
Preparing, Adjusting, and Loving the Empty Nest covers new and more in-depth topics related to the empty-nest stage of life. The author invites you to sit down and \linger a while in all things empty nest related-then go a step further and reflect upon the life lessons other empty-nest parents have discovered.\
Sample chapters include:
o Helping Your High School Kids Ready Themselves to Face the World
o Budgeting Is a Family Affair
o Generating a Strong Bond of Trust That Will Handle the Separation
o Handling Those Lonely Feelings
o Never, Ever Compare Your Journey to Others
o Work at Making Coming Home Special for Your Grown Children
Michele Howe is the author of fifteen books, mostly on parenting-five of them with Hendrickson: Caring for Our Aging Parents: Lessons in Love, Loss, and Letting Go (2016), Empty Nest, What\'s Next? Parenting Adult Children without Losing Your Mind (2015), Burdens Do a Body Good (2010), Still Going It Alone (2008) and Going It Alone (1999).