Parenting Adult Children: "Don't Bite Your Tongue"-- A Program for Your Group
Item Number: 177
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Ruth Nemzoff, author of the books Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children, and Don't Roll Your Eyes, will lead a discussion or give an interactive lecture for your group in your home or for your organization on the challenges of parenting adult children.She will focus the topic according to your needs. Possible topics include intermarriage, moving back home, dealing with in-laws, dealing with grandchildren, talking about money or inheritance.
Ruth has led over 200 discussions in the United States, Canada, India, China, and England.
Dr. Nemzoff, the former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire State Legislature, was a resident scholar at Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center and a Vice President of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Her papers are archived at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. She and her husband have four adult children.
Dr. Ruth Nemzoff will give her talk in Boston, New York, or Washington DC at a mutually convenient time.
This item also includes both of Dr. Nemzoff's books.
http://www.dontbiteyourtongue.com/
Special Instructions
“Nemzoff (Don't Bite Your Tongue) advises how to improve troublesome relationships with a variety of nonblood extended family members. She encourages parents to work diligently on avoiding confrontations with their children's spouses and concentrate on their children's happiness rather than their own disappointment. Adult children are advised to focus on the good qualities of their parents-in-law, to always be civil, and to be generous in what they accept as an apology. While in-law sibling issues can run the gamut from accepting a transgendered sib-in-law to participating in long-term care for a sibling's disabled spouse or partner, or dealing with sib-in-laws who don't share the family's values, Nemzoff also provides useful tools for readers dueling with their child's in-laws over the love and attention of their children and grandchildren (who gets to spend more time with them? who offers more financial aid?). She also has advice for those with in-laws from different cultures, religions, and races. Offering plentiful composite case studies, the fair-minded, inclusive, and congenial Nemzoff doesn't promise quick solutions and realizes some problems are unsolvable, but she focuses on helpful ways to improve relationships that with time and effort can be fixed. (Sept.) ”
— Publisher's Weekly.com