Stop Parenting features a series of vital conversations between a struggling helicopter mom and her wise life coach. It's a hybrid memoir-parenting guide, full of humor and wisdom for anyone who is a parent or who has had parents. Stop Parenting offers a radically different perspective on the typical parent-child dynamic. It's for those who seek more clarity, peace, effectiveness, energy, and authenticity in their relationships with their children. The principles of Stop Parenting extend to a multitude of relationships.

Is it possible that everything you were taught about parenting is wrong? Could there be a better way to relate to your child? Do you want more clarity, peace, effectiveness, energy, and authenticity in your relationship with your child? Stop Parenting features a series of vital conversations between a struggling helicopter mom and her wise life coach. It's a hybrid memoir-parenting manual, full of humor and wisdom for anyone who is a parent or who has had parents. Kyle Mercer offers a radically different perspective on the typical parent-child dynamic. Debunking harmful beliefs about parenting, he shows Karen Tolchin how and why to transform her relationship with her son. Her journey points the way to everyone hungry for peace in a multitude of relationships, beginning with this most fundamental of connections: the one between parent and child.

Karen Tolchin has been teaching contemporary literature, creative writing, and film at the college level for two decades. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College and Brandeis University. Her book, Part Blood, Part Ketchup: Coming of Age in American Literature and Film, was cited in William Safire's New York Times "On Language" column (2007), while her creative work has appeared in The Rumpus. An associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, Karen was recently named a trustee of Seacrest Country Day School. She lives in Naples, Florida, where she enjoys boating in the Gulf with her son Charlie.