Where are the books for helping parents with their young adults?

When I was pregnant there were books for me, then books about coping with the birth and the new baby. There were books about helping babies sleep, feeding babies, encouraging babies to move and talk. Later there were books about toddlers and learning to walk, learning to talk and preschoolers, then school age then pre-teens and teens. Help with teaching a late teen to drive.

Then when children begin to have their own children or become independent, where are the books, the support groups? The knowing nod that others were coping with adults who knew everything about bringing up children and could remember all the mistakes their parents made when they were growing up.

I am not sure I would have read any books to help me understand adult children because I did not read any of the books at different stages. I suppose I wonder if I am the only adult who is looking for some awareness of how relationships and roles change.

My friend’s daughter could not believe how she was allowed to go to park alone and the fact her mum let her have fruit juice.You do not have to be a parent to have a younger generation call you an entitled boomer and say how your generation has wrecked the world!

So, does anyone feel they need or needed a book or some support when dealing with young adults? What would be in the book and what support could be offered? This is meant to be more humorous than it reads. It just occurred to me there are so many books and groups around to help bring up children, but it stops at 18 or 21.

Moodscopers is there a stage in your life you could have done with a book to help you? It may have nothing to do with children or families or relationships or it may.

I would have liked a book to explain to my ex that it was more useful for me to spend time with our children than to have a spotless house!! Never found that book.

Leah 

A Moodscope member