Preparing, Adjusting, and Loving the Empty Nest

Michele Howe

• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781683071426

After Empty Nest, What's Next? Parenting Adult Children without Losing Your Mind, readers asked author Michele Howe for more—covering topics not discussed in the first book, along with questions at the end of each chapter for personal or group discussions. With Preparing, Adjusting, and Loving the Empty Nest, Howe provides expanded practical tips and spiritual wisdom in a three-part primer to help parents in this transitional time of life—helping them look to the future with hope as empty nesters.

Preparing, Adjusting, and Loving the Empty Nest covers new and more in-depth topics related to the empty-nest stage of life. The author invites you to sit down and "linger a while in all things empty nest related—then go a step further and reflect upon the life lessons other empty-nest parents have discovered."

Sample chapters include:

• Helping Your High School Kids Ready Themselves to Face the World
• Budgeting Is a Family Affair
• Generating a Strong Bond of Trust That Will Handle the Separation
• Handling Those Lonely Feelings
• Never, Ever Compare Your Journey to Others
• Work at Making Coming Home Special for Your Grown Children

Table of contents

• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One: Preparing for the Empty Nest
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Part Two: Adjusting to the Empty Nest
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Part Three: Loving the Empty Nest
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Chapter 31
• Chapter 32
• Chapter 33
• Chapter 34
• Chapter 35
• Chapter 36
• Chapter 37
• Chapter 38
• Chapter 39
• Chapter 40
• Sources for Quotations
• Endorsements