
Learn how parent-child relationships can grow over their lifetime. Research knowledge, relatable scenarios, and easily applicable tools make You Make Me Brave Too: Empowering Parent-Child Sharing over a Lifetime one of the most helpful parent-child resources of the last 50 years.
Darryl Arrington, PhD

The parent-child relationship is a unique force in all of our lives. Think about it -- the parent and the child share powerful experiences for the majority of their lives. Their journey often includes many challenging obstacles: emotional distance, bullying, increasing suicide rates, cognitive decline, divorce, substance abuse, learning difficulties, increasing support for daily living, mental illness, insufficient retirement savings, and more. Despite these obstacles, the fundamental parent-child relationship perseveres because the bonds are deep and enduring.
If you realize the importance of your parent-child bond, increase its support with You Make Me Brave Too: Empowering Parent-Child Sharing over a Lifetime. This engaging resource provides the tools, guidance, and inspiration needed to navigate the complexities of the parent-child relationship at every stage. Learn how to provide continuous support and nurturing to the unique bond you already share with your parent or child.
You may be a parent. You certainly have a parent. You may have a parent-child relationship you want to empower. That's a reason for your interest in this book. Another reason is that you want to improve the quality of your parent-child relationship and increase its intentionality and effectiveness. Finally, you recognize that your parent-child relationship is lifelong, and you know that it can use lifelong support, support that makes it all the more meaningful. You Make Me Brave Too: Empowering Parent-Child Sharing Over a Lifetime, a National Indie Excellence Award Finalist, is made for the intentional parent-child relationship—the parent and child relationship that works together for good.
What you share with your parent or child deserves your greatest intention and dedication. You Make Me Brave Too starts at the very beginning, offering a view of the parent-child relationship that helps you share your life more fully.
Through experiential sharing, parents and their children can share life in increasingly powerful ways. They can have great positive impact on one another. Learn more about experiential sharing in parent-child relationships in You Make Me Brave Too: Empowering Parent-Child Sharing over a Lifetime.
You Make Me Brave Too supports the parent-child relationship from the child's birth through the parent's elderly years. Often, the older years for the parent can involve a distance between the parent's experience and the adult child's. But those same years should also be among the most impactful years of the relationship. There is so much to be shared. You Make Me Brave Too supplies tools to support growth and health even in these more challenging years.

We can improve our parent-child relationships through active, not passive, sharing. Knowledge of our full experience is the key--sharing our full experience increases the likelihood that we will have the desired impact on the people that we love. The better a parent shares themselves with a child, and the better that a child shares themselves with their parent, the more they know of one another. Knowledge is power only if it is used wisely, so parent-child relationships must learn to share wisely and powerfully.
The parent-child relationship is a lifelong journey of empowering shared experiences. Those experiences hold immense potential for meaning. This is one of the key relationships in all of our lives. In many ways, its health determines our health. Sadly, few parent-child relationships fully appreciate what they have in common, so they only haphazardly share their lives for full impact. Parent-child relationships have the power to improve that, but not always the knowledge and skill.
You Make Me Brave Too helps parent-child relationships thrive by intention over their lifetime. It supports them with empirical knowledge, relatable illustrations, and inspiration from eternal wisdom. In great detail, it explores how parent-child sharing changes over a lifetime, how parent-child relationships can face and overcome the painful challenges of life, and it describes exciting new tools for parent-child sharing, tools that result in more impactful sharing as long as the relationship lasts.
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