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

Kuykendall, Carol; Gilbert, Krista

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589979427 ISBN 13: 9781589979420

Publisher: Focus on the Family, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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

Review:

This book is what every parent needs to help our teenagers soar out of the nest and into the next season of life with confidence. (Shaunti Feldman, social researcher and author of For Women Only and For Parents Only)

Give Them Wings will help you face this transitional time with empathy and courage, and encourage you to surrender your children to the One who loves them best. (Lisa Thomas and Gary Thomas, authors of Sacred Marriage and Sacred Parenting)

About this edition

• Publisher: Focus on the Family
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1589979427
• ISBN 13: 9781589979420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320