New York Times Bestseller "Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well "For parents who want to foster hearty self-reliance instead of hollow self-esteem, How to Raise an Adult is the right book at the right time." -Daniel H. Pink, author of the New York Times bestsellers Drive and A Whole New Mind A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large. While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Lythcott-Haims offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success. Relevant to parents of toddlers as well as of twentysomethings-and of special value to parents of teens-this book is a rallying cry for those who wish to ensure that the next generation can take charge of their own lives with competence and confidence.

More than 10 years after Parenting Your Adult Child was published, much has changed - including young adults themselves, as well as their parents. Economic upheavals, challenges to traditional values and beliefs, the phenomenon of over-involved "helicopter parenting" - all make relating to grown children more difficult than ever. Yet at the same time, being a parent of an adult child can bring great rewards. This revised and updated version of Dr. Gary Chapman's and Dr. Ross Campbell's message will help today's parents explore how to really love their adult child in today's changing world. The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children and adult children themselves with their own stories. An online study guide will also be available.

One in five adolescents have special healthcare needs; one in 10 face limitations to daily activities due to chronic illness or disability. Taken alongside the ever-changing societal landscape and the multifaceted psychological aspects of adolescence, these statistics underline the need to recognise adolescents and young adults as a distinct patient population with unique healthcare needs. This Monograph addresses this need. Opening with chapters that discuss health inequalities, adolescent psychology and treatment adherence, the book goes on to cover specific respiratory diseases and the requirements of their adolescent subjects. Readers will find this Monograph a useful and interesting insight into adolescent health.

"Take My Hand" - A simple guide to success from child to adult, teaches the characteristics for success to the entire family. It outlines the path to success starting with the parents. Out of the natural love parents have for their children, they are compelled to help them achieve success. Each child desires and deserves to live a successful life. Therefore, the success of every child is important to uplift the family. The training a child receives from his parent(s) should help him competently manage his actions to achieve whatever desires he has. For example, the book helps families by outlining principles and characteristics essential in their development to become who they want to be. All an individual has to do is practice its teachings and use them as guides to a more rewarding life. The book offers a unique advantage to readers from the author's perspective of being a child who grew up in poverty, lived in a broken home and later on to a great extent subjected his own children to some of the same conditions he existed in. "Take My Hand" is a guide for changing lives in a positive way. Too many children and adults are living their lives without success because they do not have the knowledge necessary to lead them in the right direction. No one taught these children how to be the successful when they were at the right age. Therefore, failure is perpetuated from one generation to the next. Now, in this guide the information for turning the tide from failure to success is available to you. As a father who has made mistakes by having my children with more than one woman I was not able to be a hundred percent father, even-though I wanted to, and their mothers needed me to be. I felt like garbage. I was of no use to myself and them. My contributions were not making the difference needed for them to be happy. When I was with them, my mind was never really there. It was in many places, trying to figure my next move to make the situation better. No one knew, except me that this was the cause of my unhappiness. All the hurt I caused my children and their mothers stemmed from the deep despair that languished in me. I broke out of my hopelessness when I got involved with an adult Christian group, called the Gospel Vibrators. This is a Prison Ministry Group comprised of young Christians from different churches. The group's main purpose for more than thirty years is to go to prisons and juvenile facilities and minister to the inmates. I participated for many years, and there my life changed. I leaned about human conditions and what causes a person to end up in a place such as a prison. Of all I have seen from the prisons and the juvenile facilities, and what I come understand about human beings: given the proper training many negative circumstances can be avoided. There is only one way to have hope in a child achieving any means of success. It is through proper training, nurturing and guidance. If a child is not given the opportunity to experience the fundamental characteristics of success, chances are that child may end up in a juvenile facility and prison. That is why I have given myself an chance through all my missteps to do something of value for another child, since I didn't do it for my own children.

Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This volume showcases new theoretical, methodological, and measurement insights in hopes of advancing understanding of the influence of the family of origin on young adults' lives. Both family resources and constraints with respect to economic, social, and human capital are considered.

This book casts new light on the debate of adult L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar (UG) by comparing the performance of adult L2 learners with that of child L2 learners. The study in this book compares Arabic- and Chinese-speaking child and adult L2 learners’ acquisition of English reflexives, particularly concentrating on the differences between child and adult L2 learners in terms of their a) acquisition of the local binding of English reflexives, b) obedience of UG constraints on reflexives and c) knowledge of the syntactic differences between reflexives and pronouns. The outline of the book goes as follows: chapter one is a general introduction to the study. Chapter two discusses the linguistic assumptions and empirical evidence of Usage-Based-Approaches and Generative Approaches with regards to language acquisition, in general, and the interpretation of reflexives, in particular. Adopting Generative Grammar as a theoretical background for this study, age effects on access to UG in first and second language acquisition are discussed in chapter three. Chapter four presents different views on access to UG in second language acquisition and reviews previous studies on the acquisition of reflexives by L2 learners. Chapter five discusses the methodology of this study in terms of participants’ selection, materials used, procedures followed and data analysed. Chapter six presents the results of the study, and chapter seven discusses the results of the study with regards to previous studies and theories. The study shows that the grammar of adult L2 learners is constrained by UG and they can have full access to UG in advanced stages of L2 acquisition. The findings of this study will be of interest to L2 researchers in generative grammar, in general, and in second language acquisition, in particular.

Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and experience child-adult relations. The authors explore the idea of generation as a key to understanding children's agency in intersection with social worlds which are largely organised and ordered by adults. The authors explore two interconnected themes: how children define the division of labour between children and adults, and how far children regard themselves as constituting a seperate group. This book is ground-breaking in its focus on the variety and commonality in children's lives and views across a broad range of contexts. It provides innovative theoretical approaches to the growing study of childhood by homing in on intergenerational relations as a main concept, and draws attention to links across the main sites of children's lives such as the home, neighbourhood and school. Moreover, for policy related issues, this book provides food for thought about the social conditions and status of childhood, and the factors structuring it.