Mom Always Liked You Best: A Guide for Resolving Family Feuds, Inheritance Battles & Eldercare Crises

by Rikk Larsen, Crystal Thorpe, Blair Trippe

This book is a practical guide for the millions of Americans currently struggling with adult family conflict. It is designed to give you the information and tools you need right now to achieve those mutual agreements that seem so elusive. Is your family trying to manage an ongoing dispute around eldercare, family property, estate planning, or inheritance issues? Is your family conflict causing distress for your elderly parent? Do you love your siblings but have no idea how to get them to communicate and make decisions? If your family is experiencing these or any other all too common adult family challenges, this guide is for you. The authors have helped many such families who are in conflict around elder transitions and associated issues. They are "thought leaders" in the field of elder mediation and also bring decades of experience in the areas of education, finance, healthcare, social work, and estate settlement, as well as their own family experiences. By reading this step-by-step guide and practicing the techniques that they lay out for you, you will learn skills used by professionals. You will learn tools to help you stop having those circular arguments that go on interminably and get you nowhere. Easy-to-read and filled with engaging examples, this guide can help you think like a mediator in order to become a better decision-maker, a more mindful negotiator, and a more effective communicator. It can help you to lead your own family members toward consensus around some of the most important decisions you will ever face together.

Genres: Nonfiction

132 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 2011

Reviews

[Anne Lucas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I write as a professional in the field of aging when I say that Mom Always Liked You Best is a book I keep ready for families who are having trouble relating to one another over an aging parent. This book would be better given by parents to their adult children before any crisis hits, a time when people suddenly realize no basis for solutions exists. The tools are clear-cut and work well beyond late life dramas.

[Beverly · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a guide for Americans struggling with adult family conflict. It is designed to give you the information and tools you need to achieve mutual agreements, especially around elder transitions and areas of education, finance, healthcare, social work, and estate settlement. No new information here, mostly common sense.

[Sharon Campbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

A clear and helpful book with great advice about dealing with aging parents and adult siblings.

[Kurt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh. Meh.

[PennsyLady (Bev) · Rating 4 out of 5]

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I thought this would be an amusing account of siblings in various life dramas
It was actually quite informative and esp interesting to me in the eldercare scenerios

[Cathy Cardozo]

Great mediation friendly book! Lots of helpful tips.

[Maureen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Perhaps because I don't have any wills to navigate or family problems to solve there wasn't much here for me. I can see its usefulness if any of these applied.