While advice abounds from a variety of sources before parents embark on their parenting journeys, the only parent preparation we actually receive comes from our family and peer stories. Yet most adults do not realize that in day-to-day challenges of guiding our children, something interesting happens. As we steer our children through life, we reopen our own childhood roads. Just when our child most needs us, we become needy ourselves: as adults and parents, we find that we have unresolved raising issues, basic needs that were not met in our childhoods. Our needs and memories echo and...
While advice abounds from a variety of sources before parents embark on their parenting journeys, the only parent preparation we actually receive come...
While no one wants to experience loss, there is tremendous learning to be had from grieving-whether from the loss of a job, loved one, a home, or one's own hopes and dreams. This book views loss and change during midlife as "fertilizer" for new dreams. Many stories of loss show how grieving can evolve into a period of new beginnings.
While no one wants to experience loss, there is tremendous learning to be had from grieving-whether from the loss of a job, loved one, a home, or one'...
