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Summary: Strongly Recommended
Review: I thought the book was great. I never purchased a "Self Help" book before and therefore was skeptical. It was recommended to me by a girlfriend of mine and I thought I would give it a try. After reading it, I was glad I did. I found it helpful in understanding not only my mother, but myself as well. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Stongly Recommend
Review: I thought the book was great. I was never purchased a "self help" book before, and therefore was skeptical. It was recommended to me by a friend, so I thought I would take a chance. After reading the book, I thought it was fantastic. I learned so much about not only my parents, but about myself as well. I would strongly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: I WISH DR. NEWMAN WERE MY MOM!
Review: I've read authors I've admired and longed to meet, but that hardly covers my feelings about Dr. Newman. She's smart, she's sensible, she's persuasive, and that's the way she writes--and why I wish I could make her an honorary member of my family, or better yet, have her adopt me into hers (my birth mother feels the same way! she wants Dr. Newman in our family, too). I've been a long time becoming an adult; now that I am and can pick my own friends, I want Dr. Newman! I bet you will too after reading a chapter or so of Nobody's Baby Now!, the book that REALLY understands how to outgrow all that baby stuff in adult relationships.
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Summary: WAYS TO ENJOY AND LOVE YOUR PARENTS
Review: If you have parents, regardless of your relationship with them, this book is an important read and a must for your library! Dr. Newman not only poses the complexities and challenges in the adult child/parent relationship, but presents solutions and recommendations for improving this most significant connection. She guides the reader through recognizing difficult situations, and then empowers the reader to maximize his own adult relationship with his parents. The chapters which touched me most were dealing with boundaries, financial matters and sibling complications. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to find more opportunities to love and enjoy their parents.
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Summary: This Is A Book For Adults
Review: If you think you have a dysfunctional relationship with your parents and that they are the root cause for your unhappiness then this book is not for you. If, instead, you are an adult who takes responsibility for their own happiness and you are looking to improve the quality of your relationship with your parents this is a helpful tool towards that goal. Moving past the parent-child bond and into a richer more fullfilling relationship, dare I say friendship, can be difficult but if you're willing to be a grown up about it this book can assist you in tackling some of the issues you may be avoiding. The authors personal anecdotes and related stories from her study subjects are helpful illustrations to which many of us can relate. It shows that even in the best of families we all have issues when it comes to dealing with our parents on an adult level. The chapters are concise and to the point without being cold and clinical.
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: In an attempt to uncover some insight on how I relate to my parents, I bought this book. I'm glad I did. It was very easy to read and kept my attention, unlike many other books of its ilk, and brought to light some patterns of behavior I might not have noticed on my own. It also validated many feelings I have been having on setting limits with my relationship with my parents. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Hits The Nail on The Head
Review: It's rare for me to find a book that I can relate to on both a personal and professional level ( I am a mental health counselor who works with families) However, this book really hits the nail on the head re: adults creating good realtionships with their parents. The author writes what I have long believed: it's never too late to establish a relationship with your parents, no matter how impossible we thought it would be. The key is establishing healthy boundaries on your own terms.
One of the great things about this book is that it is highly readable. It neither talks down to the reader nor inundates him/her with 'psychobabble.' I also like the specific and clear advice highlighted throughout the book.
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Summary: "Right on the Mark"
Review: My parents go from talking to me to not talking to me. Half the time I don't know what I did or said that starts their "isolation." I used to be miserable. Now I use the advice in Susan's Newman's book and, shock of shocks, it worked with my impossible parents. They talk to me and I don't feel guilty all the time. The book covers lots of issues between adult children and their parents - big or small. We solved the not talking problem, but now they're telling me how to raise my kids. It's back to Nobaody's Baby for me.
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Summary: A real problem solver - it worked!
Review: My parents go from talking to me to not talking to me. Half the time I don't know what I did or said that starts their "isolation." I used to be miserable. Now I use the advice in Susan's Newman's book and, shock of shocks, it worked with my impossible parents. They talk to me and I don't feel guilty all the time. The book covers lots of issues between adult children and their parents - big or small. We solved the not talking problem, but now they're telling me how to raise my kids. It's back to Nobaody's Baby for me.
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Summary: Great Relationships Help For Anyone
Review: Nobody's Baby Now by Susan Newman, PhD. is Dr. Newman's twelfth book and a great help for working out personal conflicts between generations. As a family counselor Dr. Newman saw the need for this book, the only one which covers the problems between parent and adult children, dealing with the relationships from the point of view of the adult child. She offers many case studies and interviews which she documented over several years and which cover almost every conceivable relationship difficulty between grown children and their healthy, independent parents. (Other books cover problems with parents who need care and are dying.) These generational relationship problems are common to all adult children, and Dr. Newman offers numerous solutions which the adult child can use to develop a happy, appreciative, loving relationship with his or her parents in their older years so that they won't suffer regrets after the parent dies. This is an excellent book for every young adult to own and for every parent of adult children to read in order to make the best of this closest of all bonds, learning to treasure each other as peers and friends and letting go of old tapes and practices from childhood which are no longer appropriate.
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