[.ca] Parenting When Your Child is an Adult (ISBN 1843336294)

It's about time!:
It's about time someone wrote a book on how to be a parent to our grown children. The Jacobs compassionate guide to letting go, while still remaining a parent rang true for me. I don't think I am alone when I say I want to continue to have a loving parental relationship with my newly grown children. How does one parent the recent college graduate who is returning home to live with mom and dad, or the newly married child, or the child who was downsized and is returning home out of economic neccesity.The Jacobs give several suggestions on how to handle these situations with love and compassion. They do include a section on how to tell your adult child it is time to move on. I'm surprised by some of the other reviewers point of view. We are parents forever and never stop wanting the best for our kids. The Jacobs have added a valuable tool for any thinking parents book shelf. I say Bravo!

It's About Time!!:
Dr.& Mrs. Jacobs have hit the nail on the head with this wonderful exploration of and guide to the parent/child/adult relationship. After over 45 years of observing my patients, as well as my own children, struggle to grow in a world of constantly changing values so diferent from my generation's, I am well aware of a parent's great need for advice and wisdom when they leave our nest.......and wisdom is omnipresent throughout this direct and succinct book. It is an easy read of the hard facts about our adult children and their need, as well as ours, for a successful amd loving relationship together. Hooray for the Jacobs! Donald Schiffman, MD Emeritus Director of Pediatrics Hackensack University Medical Center

Feel-Good Book But...:
This is the kind of book that tries to be informative and enlightened, but only appeals to a limited group of people: namely, the parents of undeniably abysmal failures. Sure it's nice to be told, as a parent, that if your child is about as responsible an adult as Ted Bundy that "it's okay" and "it's not the parents' fault," but come on! What kind of parents are really going to buy into a line like THAT?

Anything Goes:
Oh what can I say about this book? It's advice of the wild and crazy variety, I read it with the song "Anything Goes" parading through my thoughts as an accompaniment. These authors would do well to return to their own roots if they want to really understand human behavior. They should read The Talmud and the Torah to understand humanism because humanism just isn't wild and crazy liberalism!

Another Idea Is...:
Everyone should try the Talmud and The Torah to learn better human relations than you will find in this book. The Judaic rules about "lashon hara" say it all and say it all better than the Jacobs duo.