Clare O

This book definitely hits the mark around immature parents in so many ways. In each chapter and with each checklist, I was able to connect behaviors of my parents and even those of my older brother. It helped me better to understand their behavior and how it affected me. I definitely recommend this to anyone who experienced strife with the adults in their life. My one criticism is that the examples focus predominantly on the mother and much less on the father. I’m on chapter 4 right now and, out of the 15 or so examples of client stories so far, only 3 or 4 have involved an immature father. It’s very disappointing as my father was the more emotionally immature parent in my experience. I wish she or her editors had been self-aware enough to make this a gender-balanced experience. This doesn’t make me want to stop reading it, though, as I’m getting so much good info from it. I hope that it gets more balanced in future chapters.