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The Empty Nest: Your Changing Family, Your New Direction
Newly updated, The Empty Nest is an uplifting, practical and inspiring guide to adjusting to life after your children leave home.
More than half a million parents confront the empty nest for the first time each year. It is one of the most challenging phases of parenting, often creating feelings of loss, lack of purpose and crisis of identity which can lead to depression. Yet it receives little recognition. And contrary to popular opinion it doesn't only affect women who've put their careers on working mothers and fathers suffer too. Equally, it can be a period of liberation and discovery of new challenges, when marriages long overstressed by childcare can be rejuvenated.
The Empty Nest includes case studies documenting a wide range of experiences of parents living through an empty nest; expert comment and advice; plenty of practical ideas, inspiration and tips. This encouraging, empowering books helps you to focus on the positive as well as how to handle the changing relationship with your children to ensure a fulfilling and good relationship going forward, an area of parenting often ignored.
More than half a million parents confront the empty nest for the first time each year. It is one of the most challenging phases of parenting, often creating feelings of loss, lack of purpose and crisis of identity which can lead to depression. Yet it receives little recognition. And contrary to popular opinion it doesn't only affect women who've put their careers on working mothers and fathers suffer too. Equally, it can be a period of liberation and discovery of new challenges, when marriages long overstressed by childcare can be rejuvenated.
The Empty Nest includes case studies documenting a wide range of experiences of parents living through an empty nest; expert comment and advice; plenty of practical ideas, inspiration and tips. This encouraging, empowering books helps you to focus on the positive as well as how to handle the changing relationship with your children to ensure a fulfilling and good relationship going forward, an area of parenting often ignored.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 7, 2011
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May 12, 2023This is a quick read because there are chapters for every sort of parent: married, single, step. For this reason, some can be skipped. There are also chapters that may not apply, such as the piece about when children move back home.
The book reinforces the importance of friendships, hobbies, and couplehood, and includes tips on navigating the changes inherent to the role of parenting (befriending?) a grown child.
The book reinforces the importance of friendships, hobbies, and couplehood, and includes tips on navigating the changes inherent to the role of parenting (befriending?) a grown child.
September 4, 2025
A thought-provoking book with lots of practical advice and useful resources. Interesting to gain different perspectives by reading about the experiences of other families! A little bird 🐦 🪺 tells me this book will resonate with many parents with adult children.
April 23, 2023
Very helpful, lots of great advice and personal experiences.
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