Raising Adults: A Humane Guide for Parenting in the New World
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Are you trying to raise children or adults? This straightforward, good-humored look at how current generations see the world challenges worn-out assumptions and seeks common ground to help parents raise adults. RAISING ADULTS includes an intensely practical 30-day guarantee for transforming relationships between parents and offspring at any age. The secret sauce is doing nothing — which is a means to ending to toxic behaviors that turn households into generational war zones. RAISING ADULTS is a lot of things, but it's not about fixing people. It's also not judgmental — toward parents or their offspring. Instead, it's aboutSTARTING FROM WHERE WE ARE NOT WHERE WE THINK WE SHOULD BEASKING FOR DO-OVERS WHERE WE NEED THEMMOVING FORWARD WITH GREATER SELF-AWARENESS AND A DEEPER LOVE FOR THE UNIQUENESS OF EVERY CHILD AND EVERY PARENT
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Top Highlights
“The Fixer follows an expedient path to short-term good. The Collaborator imagines a time when he won’t be on hand to fix things or a circumstance too complicated to be simply fixed.” (Page 45)
“Adolescents are generally the first to succumb to toxic conditions” (Page 28)
“Raising Adults is about building and rebuilding relationships that nourish and nurture people to adulthood. It’s for parents, teachers, mentors and youth workers who want to be proactive. This is a book about hope and help to do a good job starting from where we are right now—not where we’re supposed to be.” (Page 10)
“Passion has something to do with wanting something so much it hurts. Add the prefix com—it means with—and you’ve got compassion: the experience of shared suffering. Raising adults requires passion (I want to nurture my child so much it hurts) and compassion (I choose to share my child’s suffering).” (Page 26)
“Toxicity an inside job. And in the parts that can be influenced by outside forces, our kids listen to and learn from adults first; before their peers. That’s why in many ways they follow our examples to excruciating lengths. They’re just like us. Only the details of their behavior are different.” (Page 35)