Raising Them Ready: Practical Ways to Prepare Your Kids for Life on Their Own

by Jonathan Catherman, Erica Catherman

What is the difference between the kid who struggles to "adult" and the one who jumps in feet first, ready to thrive? It all comes down to mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. Either we as parents raise kids who are dependent on us or we raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of an independent adult life.

In Raising Them Ready , parenting experts and bestselling authors Jonathan and Erica Catherman give you practical ways to prepare your kids for life on their own. They help you assess how your kids respond to the everyday demands of life, provide practices for redirecting them from seeing adulthood as a series of threats to anticipating exciting challenges, and give you an inventory of the real-world adulting mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets your kids should acquire before leaving the nest.

By putting into practice the advice in this book, you can stop worrying about if your kids will make it on their own and start celebrating alongside them this adventure called life.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Self Help

224 pages, Paperback

Published March 22, 2022

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting listen. I’m not sure it’s the must read I heard it claimed to be. I love the concept and feel like I’m already on the path to launch. I do want to print the numbered list and add it to my fridge. Not sure I agree with all of them…some I need to learn right along with my teens!

[Holly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full disclosure: Plenty of traditional gender roles leaking out of this author’s work, so there was skimming, I admit. The best part about this was sharing the lists with our kids—great fun to have these conversations and hear them boast about what they already know how to do and shriek in protest at what the author thinks they *should* already know. Made me feel like we are vaguely on the right track! 🙌

[Bree Sotirovich · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to give it a 4 because it was super informative and well done. However, I skimmed through a lot of it because I felt like it was too much. Maybe it would be helpful to be this detailed with explaining if I never had a child, had not been doing this parenting thing for 13 years already, or if I lacked common sense, but it was overly done. I did take away some knowledge and photocopied the lists provided. I thought they were very age appropriate.

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tips!

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Encouraging read with practical lists and suggestions for giving kids life skills each step of the way.

[Mark]

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