In your prime child-rearing years and mulling the question Am I ready to have a baby? Millennials contemplating kids can now turn to Parent Goals, a guide to emotional preparedness for parenthood. Child welfare and adoption specialist Lindsay Garrett leverages her professional expertise and experience as a new parent to lead readers through the mental prep work needed before embarking on this important life choice.

Introduction -- So you think you want to be a parent? -- It's all in the timing -- Nothing to fear but everything -- Hopes, dreams, and expectations -- Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: dealing with transition -- Attachment: when history repeats itself -- Roles: the division of labor after actual labor -- Determining your discipline and parenting style -- Villages and boundaries -- Burnout and oxygen masks -- Words of wisdom from other parents.