Loving Hard-To-Love Parents : A Handbook for Adult Children of Difficult Older Parents

Everyone knows some truly fine people in their thirties to sixties whose older parents treat them really badly, with hurtful sarcasm, irrational demands, constant criticism, and undeserved anger. These frustrated, unappreciated adult sons and daughters simply want to be good to their parents. Perhaps you are one of these people yourself.

In this unique handbook, Dr. Chafetz provides adult children of difficult older parents (CODOPs) the tools they need to protect themselves emotionally, effectively love their hard-to-love parents, and create a healthy legacy for their own children.

Here are thirty powerful, time-tested tools for CODOPs:

Ten concepts to empower their minds

Ten insights to comfort their hearts

Ten behavioral skills to guide their actions

Dr. Paul Chafetz, clinical psychologist, is a full-time private practitioner in Dallas, Texas. Trained at Brown University, the University of Florida, Duke University Medical Center, and the Texas Research Institute for Mental Sciences in Houston, Dr. Chafetz is a dynamic speaker, a prolific blogger, and a former associate professor at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He has twice served as president of the Dallas Psychological Association. Learn more about him at PaulKChafetz.com