Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

One of the best books ever!
This is definitely one of the best resources for parents of adults. So much great information and suggestions. A must read for all parents with adult children, whether they're difficult or not.

indespensible
I have needed this book for a long time, I just didn't know it existed. If you have a problem with being too darn nice and your kids see this behavior as an open door to take more, this is your book. I have recommended this book to friends. How not to be a doormat and feel good about that decision.

Reality
This book pulls no punches. A realistic look at the life many of us are living. The authur forces you to take off the rose-colored glasses. After this she gives you a new way to face the problems parents with problem adult chldren deal with. The steps she gives and advice are doable. The problems with your adult children may not change but your response to them and the control they have over your life can.

Setting Boundaries with your Adult Children
This book was leaning towards a religious solution, which is OK for lots of folks, but a little too preachy for me.

Opens Your Eyes
Are you in pain from watching your adult child repeatedly make bad choices? Destructive choices? Are you always there to help them out? To lessen the blow of the consequences? Is it becoming a never-ending cycle? I purchased this book a few weeks ago when I joined a study group based on Allison Bottke's Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children. Week by week, it has been an eye-opener. The book is not written by a psychologist - - - - it is written by a mother who has walked the journey that many of us are walking with our adult children. It's not a book full of words that weigh you down while you try to analyze every little thing that went wrong (or may have went wrong) during the growing-up years. It's not a "feel good" book either! It's a book that will slap you with the cold, hard truth and offer practical steps to get your sanity back. It focuses on the HERE and NOW. Some are just now beginning to see the problem with their adult child (under age 20) and some have been on the never-ending cycle of enabling their child for many years. I can't recommend this book enough, and I especially recommend either joining or starting a study/support group and buy the study group kit from her website. Then get a highlighter and a box of tissues, sit down and go through this book and get to work changing YOUR life.