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Sunday 1 July 2012

A Handbook To A Wonderfully Empty Nest

By Saleem Rana


Christie Mellor, the writer of a very funny new book, "Fun without Dick and Jane: Your Guide to a Delightfully Empty Nest," talked to Allen Cardoza as well as Dr. Melody Foxx on their highly popular weekly Answers for the Family radio show on L.A. Talk Radio.

Allen introduced Christie as the best-selling author of "The Three-Martini Playdate," a book that first helped parents adjust to their grief when kids left home.

The success of her first book was followed by other books that continued with the theme of helping parents discover a life of their own after their children left home for college. "The Three-Martini Family Vacation," "Raised by Wolves: Clues to the Mysteries of Adulthood," and "You Look Fine, Really," quickly developed a large readership.

Excerpts from her books, which she calls "rants," have been published in The Guardian, Junior Magazine, and the Sunday Express in Great Britain; in Sunday Life Magazine in Australia; and in the Huffington Post in the U.S.

She has also been interviewed on Britain's BBC radio and American Public Radio's Marketplace; as well as reviewed in top publications like Newsweek, Us Magazine, The New York Times, and People magazine.

Advice for Parents

The humorous author encourages parents to be thrilled about the opportunity to reclaim their own dreams when their kids finally leave home. They should be grateful to get their own lives back and happy that their children are moving on to college.

Her basic message is that it's a fact of life that youngsters do grow up and they do leave home. Instead of crying over their absence, mothers and fathers had a second chance to revitalize forgotten dreams.

She shared psychological tips on just how parents can adjust to this new phase in life. She even shared stories about clinging parents who did not handle this change with grace. She recalled the story of one Mom who relocated into an apartment near her little girl's university. She also talked about another Mom who had set up a GPS application on her boy's cellular phone to monitor his location in college.

Moving Back after University

The interview wound up on the topic of what happens when children can't find a job after college and move back home. Christie suggested that parents should not enable their children but encourage them to grow up and become independent despite a challenging economy.




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