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Set your family up for success! (Yes, that includes you.) You are an intelligent, successful woman with a thriving career and an amazing family. Yet, this parenting thing has you feeling like something of a failure. You have a dream of how you’d like your family to be, but it doesn’t seem to be working out like that. You lose yourself amid the competing demands of work, family, and day-to-day living. Your efforts to build a happy, healthy home never seem to be enough however much you love your partner and your children.

The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing, and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of 15- to 25-year-olds.

It can be a challenge to say good-bye and send your child out into the world on his or her own, whether it's to college or to join the workforce. This book provides tips on what you need to make sure your child knows, how to handle your own life once the nest is empty, and even what you need to think about if your child ever hits a stumbling block and needs to return home for a while.