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Life with Pop |  | Authors: Michael Spring, Ph. D., Janis Abrahms Spring
Publisher: Avery
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 215343
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.6092
ASIN: B001TMCFCO
Publication Date: February 21, 2009
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Product Description
From bestselling author and clinical psychologist Janis Abrahms Spring comes a refreshingly honest and tender portrait of a devoted daughter caring for her father through his final years of life
After her mother died, Janis Abrahms Spring "inherited" her father-Pop- and set off on an all-consuming five-year mission to make his days as rich and comfortable as possible. This is their story, overflowing with humor, insight, and love. In beautifully crafted vignettes, spring brings their deepening relationship to life-both the joy and the imposition, the happiness and the heartaches.
From her unique perspective as a clinical psychologist, Spring explores the emotional and practical complexities of parenting a parent. Inspiring, deeply moving, and frank, Life with Pop is an ultimately comforting meditation on a universal experience, as well as a book with profound lessons on how to grow old gracefully.
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Beautiful June 24, 2010
Christine MH
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This author beautifully shares her daily joys and angst journaling her father's last years on earth. The prose was simple but eloquent. The book pulled at my heartstrings for what was written and what was left unsaid. There wasn't any over-analysis of her feelings and thoughts, which makes the book not so much a self-help book, but a "remember with me the joys of being someone's child and the heartaches of watching a parent die." The author knows we all are feeling the same longing for our once healthy parents, yet we all know that the outcome of life is death, and we all know the emptiness that is left behind when a parent dies. Thank you Dr. Janis Abrahms Spring for sharing your story because I needed to hear your words.
 Walk along the journey.... May 16, 2010
PAinPA
This is so real, so familiar, so accurate in the emotions of parent/child relationships as they approach the end of life. For me, I balanced my personal life and family life with the urgent care of both of our mothers, and three aunts and an uncle as they aged, unlike the author dealing with an aging father. The guilt, the feelings of selfishness, the doubt of decisions, and many other emotions are shared in this memoir, and I relate to them all, times 6! As a society, we still haven't figured out how to get this right, and maybe the answers are a many as there are elders who need our care and support. This validates the caregivers feelings, but I still have that unsettled feeling in my stomach that "best isn't good enough", and "I should do more...but how?". It's well written and I recommend it.
A heartwarming chronology January 20, 2010
A Softer Place (Texas, USA)
While writing of the joys and heartaches she experienced during the last five years of her "Life With Pop", Dr. Spring has endeared us to both her and her father. A beautifully written account of the challenges they faced as aging and illness compromised his abilities and sapped his independence, it portrays both her compassion and devotion, and his spirit and grace, as they explore each new scenario together. We seldom have the opportunity to experience such a frank and intimate view of the aging process and how it can impact families, so we are grateful to Dr. Spring for sharing this testament to the benefits of a positive attitude regardless. Definitely recommend you read this book.
Touching and thought provoking December 2, 2009
Deborah W. Ulam (Georgia)
I just finished reading this book - My 84 year old dad has started to make plans to move closer to us. Luckily he is in great health, but I know what is coming closer ever year. I feel this book will better help me face some of the hard decisions that might be mine to make one day. Until then, I will treasure my time with him - be a little afraid of what might be coming - and terribly afraid of the day he will no longer be in my life. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us readers. I felt like I got to know your dad and you - it was a pleasure.
Perfect Timing November 23, 2009
N. Gray
I want to thank Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., ABPP for taking the time to put the story of her personal journey with her father in writing. After having lost my mother just 5 years ago, and having taken many of the same paths as she over the past few years, it gave me a renewed strength just as my father and I entered the final stages of his journey. This book is great for any Baby Boom Generation Caregiver whether it be to a father or mother.
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