Are Your Parents Driving You Crazy?

Are Your Parents Driving You Crazy?

Author: Joseph A. Ilardo

Publisher: Publisher:VanderWyk&Burnham

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781889242187

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Award-winning practical guide for people whose parents are still comepetent and living on their own but showing signs of aging.


My Parents Are Driving Me Crazy

My Parents Are Driving Me Crazy

Author: Pete Johnson

Publisher: Louis the Laugh

Published: 2015-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781782701606

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How do you SACK your DAD? My dad's a new stay-at-home dad and is already a TOTAL DISASTER. He COOKS meals no one can EAT, messes up all the laundry and expects me to clean my room MYSELF. Can you believe he doesn't even take my dirty cups downstairs? Worst of all, Dad has decided I'm his new BEST FRIEND and never stops TALKING TO ME. He must be STOPPED. But HOW? "Pete Johnson is a hilarious writer"#8212Mail on Sunday


Coping with Un-Cope-Able Parents

Coping with Un-Cope-Able Parents

Author: Carol-Ann Hamilton

Publisher: BalboaPress

Published: 2012-09-14

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1452554862

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Do you: Meet unquantifiable resistance in merely hinting its time your headstrong parents leave their decades-old residence? Battle belligerently at daring to suggest household caregivers to your defiant folks, given their progressive inability to perform basic daily tasks? Serve up your total human capacity to your unappreciative relatives without coming close to filling their bottomless pit? Enter resident expert Carol-Ann Hamilton. Her unique termun-cope-ableperfectly describes her own intractable duo. Through painful personal experience across decades, Carol-Ann has discovered and tested twelve innovative Keys to Coping. Eureka! Success! Engage with the Impossible Parents Questionnaire and overcome 10 hair-yanking eldercare challenges Apply 6 LOVING attitudes and stay centered during crazy-making exchanges Gain 6 down-to-earth ACTION strategies that guarantee your targeted efforts will achieve headway Be inspired by others illuminating stories, knowing youre not alone anymore Benefit from Carol-Anns hard-won lessons. Share her poignant yet hilarious journey. Get the support you needNOW. Say good-bye to feeling victimized and over-burdened. Say hello to relief and hope in Coping with Un-cope-able Parents!


They're Your Parents, Too!

They're Your Parents, Too!

Author: Francine Russo

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0553907182

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Your parents are growing older and are getting forgetful, starting to slow down, or worse. Suddenly you find yourself at the cusp of one of the most important transitions in your life—and the life of your family. Your parents need you and your siblings to step up and take care of them, a little or a lot. To make the right things happen, you will all need to work together. And yet your siblings may have very different ideas from yours of what’s best for Mom and Dad. They may be completely uninterested in helping, leaving you with all the responsibility. Or they may take charge and not allow you to help, or criticize whatever help you do give. Will you and your siblings be able to reach an understanding and work together, or will the challenges you face tear you apart? Most of us enter this period of our lives unprepared for the difficult decisions and delicate negotiations that lie ahead. This is the first book that provides guidance on the transition from the “old” family to the “new” one, especially for adult siblings. Here you’ll find practical advice on a wide range of topics including • Who will make major medical decisions, manage finances, and enforce end-of-life choices if your parents cannot? And how will this be decided and carried out? • How will you negotiate caregiving issues and deal with unequal contributions or power struggles? • How can inheritance and the division of property, assets, and personal effects be handled to minimize hurt feelings and resentment? • How will you cope with the natural reemergence of unresolved childhood rivalries, hurts, and needs? • How can caring for your parents be an enriching experience rather than a thankless chore? • Most important, how can you ensure the best care for your parents while lessening conflict, guilt, anger, and angst? Written by a veteran journalist who chronicles life and how baby boomers live it, They’re Your Parents, Too! offers all the information, insight, and advice you’ll need to make productive choices as you and your siblings begin to assume your parents’ place as the decision-making generation of your family. Filled with expert guidance from gerontologists, family therapists, elder-care attorneys, financial planners, and health workers; resonant real-life stories; and helpful family negotiation techniques, this is an indispensable book for anyone whose parents are aging.


How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for Coping With

How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for Coping With

Author: Denise Lang

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1992-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0671789112

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"How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy" will help you keep your sanity when dealing with family frictions ranging from the trivial to the catastrophic. With candor, empathy, and a healthy dose of humor, Denise Lang offers clear-eyed solutions to the problems that ignite family explosions. Focusing on every important "family matter", including money, religion, adult sibling rivalry, divorce, blended families, serious illness, and death, Lang describes effective mechanisms for coping with irritating and destructive behavior. The book features tests designed to help you determine your role in the family-- from Dictator to Goat-- and helpful advice on employing periodic "reality checks" and planned communications. For those truly at the end of their ropes, there are even suggestions for creating a surrogate family!


Do Your Parents Drive You Crazy?

Do Your Parents Drive You Crazy?

Author: Janet Dight

Publisher:

Published: 1988-10-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9780671670702

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Gives answers to children whose parents complain, don't understand, criticize, disapprove, control, or otherwise manipulate their children's lives


Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up the Wall and What To Do About It

Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up the Wall and What To Do About It

Author: Dean Burnett

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0241403154

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'A wonderfully useful book, told with wit and wisdom' - Adam Kay, best-selling author of THIS IS GOING TO HURT "Get up or you'll miss the best part of the day!" "You treat this place like a hotel." "Can you just put that phone down for one minute?!" After years of reliable performance, has something recently gone wrong with your parents? Do you find yourself stressed out, arguing about the most ridiculous things? Is it like you're processing the same world with entirely different brains? Do you and your parents want to fix things? There are hundreds of books for them about how to deal with you. Now, for the first time, doctor of brains and international bestselling author, Dean Burnett has written a book for YOU to understand just what on earth is going on. Like, just WHY are your parents: - Obsessed with tidiness - Not letting you get enough sleep - Just generally not getting anything that's important to you! But don't worry. These are very normal parent malfunctions, and by understanding the science behind where they're coming from, you'll know exactly how to troubleshoot conflict when it occurs (and even fix it before it does). You'll never be able to remove arguments completely. But imagine what you'd be capable of if you weren't wasting all that time and energy arguing about tidying your room.


Love-Powered Parenting

Love-Powered Parenting

Author: Tom Holladay

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2011-12-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0310331684

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Love-Powered Parenting is written out of a love for parenting and a deep desire to encourage parents. Yes, there are experiences in parenting that can cause deep hurt. Yes, there are realities in parenting that certainly will cause you to feel inept. Yet at the core of it all there is a deep gratefulness for the gift that God gives in the opportunity to love a child. This book is a biblical guide to parenting. And by "biblical guide" we mean these pages are intended to take you on a journey through what the truth of God's Word has to say about parenting. The main goal is not to uncover psychological truths about your child--there are many good resources on psychological theory; nor does it include practical tips for everyday circumstances such as how to get your kids to eat their green beans. Here, we will explore the simple and profound principles of God's Word to distinguish psychological truth from error, educational reality from untested theory, and we'll be looking at these tips within the broader context of God's principles for parenting.


When Your Child Drives You Crazy

When Your Child Drives You Crazy

Author: Eda J. LeShan

Publisher: Saint Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 1992-04

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 9780312929305

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Full of warmth and wisdom, this inspiring guide to parenting by child-care expert Eda LeShan offers sensible advice and insightful explanations. Parents learn the ten most important things they can teach a child; what to do when a child is scared, nagging, rude, or accident-prone; the pros and cons of spanking; to say "no" and stick to it; and much more.


Do Your Parents Drive You Crazy?

Do Your Parents Drive You Crazy?

Author: Janet Dight

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780132186865

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This book is the complete guide on how to deal with your parents -- without ending up in a padded cell.