Book description
Every day, at home, at work, at play and at school, we are all forced
to confront generational wars. The rules for living in families and
raising children have changed dramatically in the last decade. Families
are shrinking, parents are having children later in life and adolescence
now stretches for twenty years with young people just not leaving home.
In fact, such are the generational changes that some parents now leave
home before their kids. The world is increasingly crowded as an alphabet
soup of generations exists side by side in workplaces, within the
community and within families. With the traditional three score and ten
years stretching to four score and more there are currently five
generations coexisting: the silent generation, babyboomers, Generations,
X, Y and Z. So how do Gen Xer's raise their children? Are Gen Y's just
Babyboomers recycled or are they defined by the times they live in? Will
outsourcing and grandparenting be replaced by surrogate parenting? To
understand children and parents today it essential to look at the
context in which we live. Michael Grose helps readers understand how
each generation thinks and functions and presents ideas to help us live
with each other in imperfect harmony. He takes a look at the challenges
of raising Gen X families - small families - and provides a new
parenting model for raising 21st century kids. XYZ: The New Rules of
Generational Warfare provides essential strategies for parents who are
struggling to raise Generation Y and provides tips and strategies to
help Generation Y live with their parents! Michael Grose is
Australia's number-one parenting educator, with an enviable track record
of helping parents and professionals raise and teach today's kids. His
best-selling Why First Borns Rule the World has sold over 23,000 copies.
Michael is a regular weekly parenting columnist for 'Body and Soul' in
Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, which has a circulation of 6 million. He has
a popular website, www. parentingideas. com. au, which parents find an
invaluable source of easy-to-access information. On the website he has
information on all his books. He presents a half-hour parenting segment
each fortnight on ABC radio and appears regularly on the national
Australian television program 9AM, commenting on parenting issues of the
day. He is a popular speaker, giving up to 100 seminars and
presentations each year to parents and professionals in Australia and in
the United Kingdom. Michael is the only person to have conducted a
parenting seminar for a nation's leaders, when he ventured into
Parliament House, Canberra, in 2004 and addressed politicians on all
sides of the political fence about how to behave so your children will
too!
