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Slouching Toward Adulthood: How to Let Go So Your Kids Can Grow Up
Slouching Toward Adulthood How to Let Go So Your Kids Can Grow Up Author:Sally Koslow ?A shrewd account of a problem the boomer generation didn?t know it had created: the consequences of helicopter parenting. We?ve pampered our kids so much they don?t want to grow up.? -James Atlas, author of My Life in the Middle Ages — Parents once dreamed of dropping their prodigies at first-choice colleges and sighing with relief at a job well... more » done. Nowadays, though, mothers and fathers are stressing about whether Jessica or Josh will boomerang back after graduation?and still be there years later. Why are so many wunderkinds now s-l-o-w-l-y slouching toward adulthood? Panicked after reading that twenty-eight is the new nineteen, Sally Koslow?journalist and mother?searched for answers. Part hard-hitting investigation and part hilarious memoir, Slouching Toward Adulthood is a heartfelt cri de coeur that can help families negotiate life around the unexpectedly crowded dining tables for years to come.« less