Parenting Our Young Adults With Love and Backbone: The Practice of Supportive Integrity

The goal of this book is to provide general principles and guidelines that parents can follow that speak to the need to be understanding, loving, forgiving, and compassionate while exhibiting backbone-the ability to say "no." In most cases guidelines and principles are followed by applications and examples. Being a parent of a young adult is more challenging than at any other time in history, yet parents of young adults are often ignored with a view that their job is done, so education and ...