Family for Life : How to Have Happy, Healthy Relationships with Your Adult Children

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Summary: Great advice and wonderful tips for parents of all ages
Review: Parenting is a job that never ends, but it's a job that most of us signed up for willingly and joyfully. With Kathy Peel's advice and guidance in this new book, that joy can continue for many years to come as our children grow into adulthood. Family is for life, enjoy it while you can.

Drawing on her own 29 years of parenting experience, Peel offers 10 fact-filled chapters that offer insightful ideas, as well as helpful do's and don'ts that cover a wide range of topics.

Peel also includes quotes from her massive collection that deal with the varied circumstances faced in this unique situation. Two of my favorites are:
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." - Robert Frost.
"Be nice to your children. They will be the ones who choose your rest home." - Phyllis Diller.

Peel's final chapter, The Portable Mom: The Mother of All Resources, is perhaps the most helpful. She includes practical ideas for helping your children go off on their own, from finding reasonable insurance to how to manage their money. The list of supplies that someone moving out on their own for the first time is detailed, complete and incredibly helpful. I wish I had a list like this when I moved out for the first time.