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REFEATHERING THE EMPTY NEST
By: Wendy Aronsson
Life After the Children Leave
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2014
On Sale: April 18, 2014
192 pages
ISBN: 1442224029
EAN: 9781442224025
Kindle: B00JXCYEFI
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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 childrensβ 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 βempty nestβ 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 theyβve reignited the passion in their marriages or moved on from bad matches, how theyβve rediscovered old interests and talents, and how theyβve 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.
 Media BuzzKatie - June 4, 2014
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