In 50 Things Every Child Needs to Know Before Leaving Home, Dr. Josh and Jen Mulvihill help parents put a plan into action to raise children to maturity in Christ. This book is a guidebook to help parents chart a course to holistically disciple their child to mature, godly adulthood while also functioning as a keepsake that will allow parents to capture milestones and memories associated with each of the fifty areas to give to a child when he or she is older. It's designed to help you establish a plan and be proactive for each season of your parenting journey in the key areas of your child's life.

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood 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 fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.

500 Things Every Teen Should Know Before Leaving Home is packed with invaluable advise and tips to help teenagers and young adults negotiate the ups and downs of independent living.

Are You Ready To Be A Grown-Up? A wise person once said "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." Because that's the goal of parenting, right? We all want to raise compassionate, independent young adults, who have the courage, confidence and desire to reach their potential. But how do we raise children to be this way: resilient and confident? Self-confidence, for the most part, rises out of a sense of competence - from a feeling that we can do things, big and small. Inside this book you will find 100 LIFE SKILLS that every kid would benefit from learning by the time they're ready to leave home. Why? Because we are raising the future adults of this world. The bottom line is this: we need to equip our kids with the skills they need to survive and prosper in the real world. Eventually they will leave home and we need to do what we can to guarantee their greatest chance of success in life. This book provides information on all the important skills, needed to succeed both inside and outside the home. These skills are not only valuable but achievable because it's never too late to learn something new.

Provides a list of over one thousand things young adults should know before they move out--in order to keep them from returning home, including both practical and philosophical information.

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.