Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind. This item is unavailable.Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind

Your kids are spreading their wings. Are you ready?In Fledge, counselor, educator, and mother Brenda L. Yoder helps Christian parents navigate the many transitions of the launching years. How do you parent tweens at home and young adults away from home at the same time? What's a good balance between boundaries and freedom? How can you pray for your fledgling youth? And what do you do with all that mom grief?Your job as a parent isn't over; it's just changing. Equip yourself with biblical wisdom for this season of transition in your family life. Learn the patterns to avoid and the habits to pursue. Launching your children can be scary, and some days it might make you crazy. But you've been raising them to do just this. Fledge will help you release your children into the future that God has planned for them.

Brenda L. Yoder is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, educator, speaker, and author of Uncomplicated: Simple Secrets for a Compelling Life; Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind; and Balance, Busyness, and Not Doing It All. She has been featured in Guideposts devotionals, Chicken Soup for the Soulbooks and The Washington Post. She hosts the Midlife Moms and Life Beyond the Picket Fence podcasts and the Midlife Moms Facebook Group.

Brenda loves antiques, gardening, front porch rockers, her grandkids, and good conversations over coffee. She and her husband, Ron, raised four children on their family dairy farm in northern Indiana, where they currently raise goats, chickens, and cattle. You can connect with Brenda on Instagram or at brendayoder.com, where she writes about life, faith, and family beyond the storybook image.