Parenting: Return on Intention: Stop fixing your kids. Meet them where they are. - Softcover

Granski, Nadia

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798996868414

Publisher: Nadia Granski Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

What if the goal of parenting isn't raising a child who listens—but raising an adult who still wants to talk to you?

How do you get your teenager to talk to you when shutting down is easier? What changes when you stop lecturing and start listening? How do you repair your relationship with your child after getting it wrong?

Nadia Granski became a mother at eighteen and grew up alongside her first child, gradually believing she had figured out the parenting puzzle. Then her second child arrived, twenty-two years later, and challenged nearly everything she thought she knew.

Raising two very different children, a generation apart and on two continents, gave her something no parenting theory can: the chance to see what actually lasted.

Parenting: Return on Intention is a deeply personal journey through the messy, funny, painful, and unexpectedly beautiful moments that shape a family. Through 30+ true stories, including the ones she wishes she had handled differently, Nadia explores:

• how trust is built before we ever ask for it
• when helping quietly turns into fixing
• what autonomy looks like when giving it feels frightening
• why the same approach can land completely differently with two children
• how connection survives mistakes, conflict, and adolescence

Along the way, she introduces the R.O.I. Framework (Relationship, Ownership, Impact), a simple way to ask what your everyday parenting choices will return years from now.

For parents of toddlers, teenagers, and grown children, and for anyone who wants to raise independent kids without sacrificing connection.

Childhood ends. The relationship doesn't have to.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nadia Granski Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798996868414
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Ivanova Elena
• Number of pages: 238