LATER!: A GUIDE TO PARENTING A YOUNG ADULT

Book ID/图书代码： 07980014B70624

English Summary/英文概要： One minute you are taking your child to school, the next they’re turning into a young adult. It may seem like only months since you were first filling your child’s lunch box, but the school career moves with such momentum that it isn’t long before they are facing the challenges of further education, job hunting and living independently. This new book will help you to encourage self-reliance in your nearly grown children and prepare them for independence in the real world.

It also shows how you can prepare for a time when your child’s excitement at the prospect of leaving school, going to university or just living on their own leaves you feeling passed over and obsessed by detail they see as unimportant. How do you start to think about what to do with the rest of your life - picking up on ambitions, both personal and professional, and prioritising your own friends and interests?

And how do you handle the situation when, as is increasingly common, children later decide to return home to live? This book addresses current issues such as boomerang kids, sofa syndrome and how to motivate, money management for a generation disinclined to save, the hotel of Mum and Dad, and much more.

Later! is an empathetic guide to making sense of life at a time when all the ground rules need to be reconsidered, if not renegotiated. Packed with strategies, exercises and question-and-answer sections, Later! is user-friendly and entirely practical. It considers the hopes and plans of parents and children alike and, in the process, demonstrates how to ’move on’ while sustaining a supportive, happy relationship.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 好像一分钟前，你还在送孩子上学，接下来他们已经变成一个年轻人。很快，你的孩子就开始面临着升学、求职以及独立生活的挑战。这本新书将帮助你，鼓励你的几乎已经是个成人的孩子自力更生并在现实世界中为独立做准备。

本书也指导家长如何为自己考虑——当孩子们为了离开学校而激动的时候，当他们上大学或者搬出去住的时候，当他们对于你觉得重要的细节不削一顾的时候，本书教你怎么考虑在接下来的日子里为自己做些什么，或者是在个人生活和职业发展方面找回自己的野心，或是以交友和娱乐为先。

然后，孩子可能又决定要搬回家里来住——这样的举动越来越多见了。这时候你又该如何处理呢？本书涉及不少十分新颖的话题，比如啃老族，沙发综合症，以及如何激励不知道存钱为何物的一代人学习理财等等。

本书是一个善解人意的向导，其中包括应对策略，练习以及提问环节，完全是为读者考虑病重视实用性的结果。本书兼顾了家长和孩子的希望和计划，并演示了如何走进一段互相支持、幸福的亲子关系之中。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：本书语言风格平直，是一本实用的指南......它旨在帮助家长去帮助他们的孩子，但其中有一个我很喜欢的细节：作者提醒书中的父亲或母亲不要忘记为自己的未来思考。（Sandi Toksvig OBE，作家，播音员，大法官以及三个孩子的母亲）

如果我们的家庭塑造了我们的性格，如果养育的过程决定了一个人的人生，那么是生活的这些“根”让我们总有一个想要回去的地方。（Alasdair Baverstock，AITO年度青年旅行作家，也是作者的儿子）

本书是所有面对改变的人的必读书籍，它寓教于乐的风可以帮助我们看清家庭生活不断改变的特性。通过简单而有趣的练习，它既拓展我们的思想，也使我们能够一窥情感风暴给我们带来的变化。本书适合专业人士和普通家长，是一本值得一读的书。（Nick Whitfield，首席执行官，Achieving for Children机构儿童服务总监）

About the Author/作者介绍： Gill Hines是一位自由教育顾问和培训师，专门从事健康和福利培训，也涉及包括吸烟、欺凌、性和亲密关系、调解等等方面工作。近年来，她在学校以及其他公开场所为父母举行的培训活动人气颇高，总数量已经超过三百场，涉及话题包括“怎样拒绝并且让别人接受你的拒绝”、针对12岁以下小朋友家长的“未来和挑战”以及针对12岁以上青少年家长的“如何度过青少年时期”以及“如何与青少年沟通”等等。”Gill Hines出生并成长于罗姆福德，她擅长从生活的方方面面中找到幽默和趣味，用充满温暖和同情的心情感受生活的起起伏伏。

Alison Baverstock博士是一位学者、作家和顾问，拥有超过30年的出版经验。她曾广泛参与包括世界卫生组织和联合国教科文组织等机构在内的海外培训课程的开发和开展。她是Kingston大学出版硕士学位课程的负责人，且是作家协会管理委员会成员，于2007年获得了Pandora奖的出版突出贡献奖。她经常就写作和出版发表媒体评论，并在多个文学节等场合发表讲话。

Gill Hines is a freelance education consultant and trainer specialising in Health and Wellbeing and covering such issues as smoking, bullying, sex and relationships education, assertion and mediation. In recent years her parent workshops have become more and more popular with over 300 held to date in schools and other easily accessible venues covering issues of concern to parents children of all ages such as ’how to say No and have it work’ and of course ’Bright and Challenging Children’ for the under 12s and ’Surviving the Teenage Years’ and ’Communicating with your Teen’ for the over 12s. Born and raised in Romford she has that Essex ability to find humour in every aspect of life whilst exuding great warmth and empathy for all its ups and downs.
Her core belief is that the only behaviour we can change is our own but by making even small changes in how we parent we can facilitate sometimes major changes in how families and children behave. She provides personal support to parents in creating family change as well as regularly contributing her ideas to the media as a ’go to’ person in modern parenting.

Dr. Alison Baverstock is an academic, author and consultant with over 30 years’ experience of publishing. She has been extensively involved in the development and delivery of training programmes overseas, for the PTC, the Know How Fund, the WHO and for UNESCO. Course Leader for MA Publishing at Kingston University, she is a member of the Board of Management of The Society of Authors and in 2007 received the Pandora Award for a significant contribution to publishing. She is a frequent media commentator on writing and publishing and speaks at many literary and writing festivals.

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