'Failure to Launch' Resources

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Dr. Maggie Wray recommends these books for families navigating a child's transition to responsible adulthood.

Books for parents trying to help their young adults launch successfully:

• Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn't Grown Up...and What to Do About It by Mark McConville

• Smart but Scattered—and Stalled by Richard Guare, Colin Guare and Peg Dawson

• How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims

  
  

For the young adults themselves:

• Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

• The Defining Decade by Meg Jay

  
  

For parents trying to intervene early so their kids are set up to launch successfully in the future:

• The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey

• The Self-Driven Child by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson

• Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy