Counselor Brenda Yoder helps parents prepare for when kids fly the coop in Fledge

February 22, 2018

Counselor Brenda Yoder helps parents prepare for when kids fly the coop in Fledge

HARRISONBURG, Va. —Preparing kids to leave home is a daunting task, and parents often feel unprepared for this stage of life. Counselor, educator, and mother Brenda L. Yoder helps Christian parents navigate this transition in Fledge: Launching Your Kids without Losing Your Mind (March 13, 2018, Herald Press).

With biblical wisdom and firsthand experience, Yoder has practical advice for parents with children preparing to spread their wings and leave home. Yoder answers questions like: 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? What do you do with all that mom grief?

“This book is not for empty nesters,” writes Yoder. “It’s for us: parents in the process of nudging our children out of our nest, one by one. We are so busy doing life we don’t think of all the changes happening until the tears, the ‘lasts,’ and the hormones take over, forcing us to embrace the fact that midlife and adult kids are upon us.” Fledge aims to help parents release children into the future that God has planned for them. “It’s a crazy, exhausting, and exhilarating time of life, and you may not feel equipped for it,” Yoder says.

Publishers Weekly writes, “Readers who are in the process of readying their children to launch into adulthood will find Yoder’s text to be a helpful companion.” Jim Daly of Focus on the Family says, “We often hear from families who are watching their kids graduate from high school and transition from childhood into the adult world. It can be a challenging time for moms in particular. In Fledge, Brenda L. Yoder provides sensitive, biblical wisdom for moms who want to help their kids launch well.”

Brenda L. Yoder is a licensed mental health counselor, speaker, Bible teacher, educator, and parent of teens and young adults. She has a master’s in clinical mental health counseling and a bachelor’s in education. Yoder’s work has been published in the Washington Post and Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Reboot Your Life, and she has been a columnist for Ten to Twenty Parenting and Whatever Girls. A former high school teacher and middle school counselor, Yoder and her husband have four children and live in northern Indiana. Connect with her at BrendaYoder.com.

Fledge is available from Herald Press for $15.99 (paperback) and $12.99 (ebook) at 800-245-7894 or at www.HeraldPress.com, Amazon, and other online sources. Canadian customers can order from CommonWord (877-846-1593), Parasource (800-263-2664), and elsewhere. To schedule an interview with Brenda Yoder, contact LeAnn Hamby at 540-908-3941 or [email protected].

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