Smart but Scattered--and Stalled: 10 Steps to Help Young Adults Use Their Executive Skills to Set Goals, Make a Plan, and Successfully Leave the Nest
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Whether you're a young adult who is stalled on the journey to independence--or a concerned parent still sharing the family nest--this compassionate book is for you. Providing a fresh perspective on the causes of failure to launch, the expert authors present a 10-step plan that helps grown kids and parents work together to achieve liftoff. Learn why brain-based executive skills such as planning, organization, and time management are so important to success, and what you can do to strengthen them. You get downloadable practical tools for figuring out what areas to target, building skills, identifying a desired career path, and making a customized action plan. Vivid stories of other families navigating the same challenges (including father and son Richard and Colin Guare) reveal what kind of parental support is productive--and when to let go. Review: Helped our son get back on track! - Our son flunked out of college and this book helped him get back on track! He was accepted back into college and got straight A’s! He’s not doing quite as well this semester but his weekly calls with his Dad are helping him stay accountable! I highly recommend this book! Review: Worth of reading for teens or as teens - I love this book. It covers most of the problems teen would have and provides the tactics or skills they should master. It’s really helpful. I used his strategies on my kids. I asked my son to read it thru and he did. He found some of his issues thru it. Recommend strongly!
| Best Sellers Rank | #133,517 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #133 in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity #339 in Popular Psychology Pathologies #3,249 in Personal Transformation Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 149 Reviews |
G**L
Helped our son get back on track!
Our son flunked out of college and this book helped him get back on track! He was accepted back into college and got straight A’s! He’s not doing quite as well this semester but his weekly calls with his Dad are helping him stay accountable! I highly recommend this book!
I**S
Worth of reading for teens or as teens
I love this book. It covers most of the problems teen would have and provides the tactics or skills they should master. It’s really helpful. I used his strategies on my kids. I asked my son to read it thru and he did. He found some of his issues thru it. Recommend strongly!
K**I
Invaluable resource to add to your library. Parents: Buy while your child is still young!
Such a fantastic, useable book for my 22-year-old son and me. It gives us common language, we do the worksheets, which he is willing to do because they are from an expert, not from his mom. He particularly connects with the dozens of case studies, so thank you for stories from the young adults' points of view. Colin's contributions were invaluable! Thank you for your vulnerability, Colin. This is a reference book in our library that we come back to time and time again. I learned so much about parenting -- I wish I would have found this when he was in middle school!
C**1
Great teaching resource
As a teacher, I found a vast array of ideas, methods, and uplifting stories throughout the book that I will be using with my students.
T**G
Great!
Very great book!
A**T
Great resource!
Very helpful!
C**K
Spot on
Just what I expected.
M**5
Complicated
First thing to know is the book and recommendations are totally dependent on your young adult child participating in all the quizzes and goal setting. If you don’t have the participation of your child, the book really isn’t helpful. I also found it somewhat complicated in all the steps and quizzes that need to be completed before getting to any actual recommendations. And in all honesty, I didn’t get anything useful from the book.
S**N
Very Informative
This book has given me some valuable tools to work with. Happy with purchase
M**A
Not great condition of arrival.
For a brand new product this is way too damaged when the packaging came intact. The first pages look and feel like they have been damaged by water. The cover has a whole hole in the front and is completelly scratched and full of marks
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