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Life After the Children Leave
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2014
On Sale: April 18, 2014
192 pages
ISBN: 1442224029
EAN: 9781442224025
Kindle: B00JXCYEFI
Hardcover / e-Book
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Many parents have demonstrated a desire to parent skillfully
and artfully. They read the latest child development and
parenting books, configure their schedules to accommodate
the social and educational lives of their children, and
focus like lasers on their childrens’ well-being. Many have
made an enormous emotional and financial investment in
raising their children. But children grow up, they move out,
they create their own lives and their own homes. The role of
the parent changes, diminishes, and evolves. The life phase that begins in preparation for an “empty
nest” and continues until parents re-feather the nest has no
official name, yet it represents a profound shift from the
rigors of daily parenting to a period of self-reflection and
reorientation. Here, Wendy Aronsson centers on that
experience, capturing the realities of the emotions and life
changes that come on gradually, and sometimes proceed in
fits and starts. Refeathering the Empty Nest is for any parent preparing for
the departure from home of their youngest child. It is for
those who wish to move forward productively, both in their
new parenting role and in their roles as spouse, employee,
friend, neighbor, and self. Using real stories throughout,
Aronsson shows how people have managed these changes, how
they’ve reignited the passion in their marriages or moved on
from bad matches, how they’ve rediscovered old interests and
talents, and how they’ve reinvented their relationships with
their children as well. These stories provide hope and
guidance to anyone whose nest is about to empty as well as
those whose nests already are.
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