Give Them Wings: Preparing for the Time Your Teen Leaves Home - Softcover

Updated and Revised
Your teen comes home with her driver’s license. College catalogs fill your mailbox. Senior pictures are taken, and graduation gowns are fitted. The family car is loaded to take your college freshman to his dorm.

During that transition time when a teen becomes a young adult, family roles must stretch and adjust to accommodate spreading wings. What can you expect in this process? Give Them Wings offers insight into how families change as parents and teens make room for the future. Emphasizing the need for independence and responsibility, Give Them Wings explores many ways that parents can equip their teen.

If your children are on the brink of adulthood, Give Them Wings can help you survive the changes and thrive on the challenges the next few years will bring. You can be prepared to help your teens journey into adulthood, as well as learn to enjoy the process of emptying the nest.

Setting them free to soar
It’s both exciting and scary when a parent first hands over the car keys. Yet that’s an event that marks the beginning of transition for the entire family, one that is soon followed by extended curfews, college tours, and graduation ceremonies.

How do you, as a parent, handle this time of change and provide your young adults with the room they need to grow? Find the answers in this newly revised and updated edition of Give Them Wings, a best-selling book that’s already guided thousands of families through this phase of life.

With wisdom and insight, Give Them Wings shows you how to help your teens

• answer such questions as “Who am I?”
• explore their own beliefs
• learn the ins and outs of budgeting, doing laundry, and other responsibilities
• choose a college or career path that’s right for them
• successfully navigate their last years of high school and first years of college
• bid farewell to childhood and become adult members of the family