Wendy Aronsson

Refeathering the Empty Nest (eBook, ePUB)

Life After the Children Leave

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist, Books for a Better Life Award: "A terrific read that offers parents a new way of thinking and being after their last child leaves home." -Guy Winch, PhD, author of Emotional First Aid Parents make 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-and the role of the parent changes, diminishes, and evolves. This life phase has no official name, yet it represents a profound shift from the rigors of daily parenting to a period of self-reflection and reorientation. In this book, 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 Nestis for any parent preparing for a grown child's departure from home and wanting to move forward productively, both in their changed 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442224032
• Artikelnr.: 41053639

Autorenporträt

Wendy Aronsson, LCSW, has been a licensed psychotherapist since 1981 and is in private practice in Greenwich, Connecticut. Aronsson has consulted with local schools and was an active charter member of the special education section of the Greenwich Parent-Teacher Association. In addition, she developed and facilitated the Learning Differences Network for the Junior League of Greenwich in conjunction with Greenwich Hospital. She also serves as facilitator for "The Parent Exchange" with Greenwich Hospital. Aronsson is also a guest lecturer and consultant at area schools and Parents Together, an organization sponsored by local public and independent schools.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Purpose of the Book and Sources of Insights
Section I: About the Shift
1: Parenting in the Evolving Nest
2: Stages of the Shift
Section II: Realities of the Shift
3: The Role of Personal Experience
4: Looking Inside the Nest
5: Reminiscing about Your Parenting
Section III: The Journey
6: Challenges, Uncertainties, Fear
7: Possibilities
8: Return to the Nest
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index