Books : Really, You've Done Enough: A Parents’ Guide to Stop Parenting Their Adult Child Who Still Needs Their Money But Not Their Advice
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by: Sarah Walker
List Price: $16.99Amazon.com's Price: $13.25 You Save: $3.74 (22%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.874
EAN: 9781582974781
ISBN: 1582974780
Label: Tow Books
Manufacturer: Tow Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: October 03, 2007
Publisher: Tow Books
Sales Rank: 649188
Studio: Tow Books
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Product Description:
Let's face it, everyone goes through the painful transition of learning that parents are really just people... people with faults, who probably made grievous errors when they raised you. And REALLY YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH has plenty of case studies, illustrations, charts, graphs, bullet points and lists to prove it.
Twenty somethings, or as Time magazine calls them, 'Twixters,' often find themselves, post-college, reevaluating their relationship with their parents. Packaged as an instructional guide to parents, this book for 20-somethings is a humorous take on adult children's relationships with their invasive parents. In the traditon of popular television shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, this book blends a nice mix of humor and irony with substantial truth and an incisive undertone that will resonate with young adults.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - not for those who need serious help
I supposes this book might have redeeming insights, but I couldn't get past the 4-letter words, coarse humor and vulgarity. I won't even pass it on to a thrift store. I will put it in the trash. What a disappointment.
Rating:  - I keep looking for my name in this book!!
From the time I spotted this book on the "New Arrivals" shelf of the library, I was hooked. It came home with me, but has to return. However, I will purchase my own copy as I just KNOW that within the covers is the story of my family - and fortunately not our names. To present this subject matter with the edgy humor is the best therapy I could ever imagine.
Rating:  - Not what I thought - very humorous, hard to find the "advice"
She's very funny and talented, but I was expecting something to help me understand and cope with a young adult male who won't grow up. I wanted to find guidance and couldn't stick with it long enough to learn anything. I guess she really means it when she says you should keep giving your kids money! I need mine for ME! I was hoping he could get his own someday and I have given up on that fantasy of him ever being able to take care of me when I get old and helpless. Just take me out to the woods ... Read More
Rating:  - Irreverent Gem
Highly recommended reading for every parent of a twenty or thirtysomething (better yet, read now if you have younger kids and get a head start). Very funny one moment, very dead-on the mark in the next--a breezy, joy to read by an obviously very observant gifted young writer.
Rating: - And Now You Owe It To Yourself - Buy This Book!
The author combines star quality and a starburst mentality. She takes tiny truisms of the parent-child relationship and magnifies them into very funny scenarios, unencumbered by any linear thought. She even from time to time takes a short verbal diversion and then announces "OK, I'm back". The targets are luscious - Dad and sex education? Disgusting. Watching porn with Mom? Hey, maybe a good bonding opportunity. Mom favoring a friend the all-American girl? Well, perfectly understandable, if you ... Read More
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