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    Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
    Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
    Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
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    Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out

    Written by Jim Burns, Ph.D

    Narrated by Wayne Campbell

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    Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition.

    If you've raised a child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated--your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.

    Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he's received over the years, including:

    • My child's choices are breaking my heart--where did I go wrong?
    • Is it OK to give advice to my grown child?
    • What's the difference between enabling and helping?
    • What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home?
    • What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood?
    • How do I relate to my grown child's significant other?
    • What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries?
    • How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values?

     

    Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9780310357766
    Author

    Jim Burns, Ph.D

    Jim Burns is the president of HomeWord. He speaks to thousands of people around the world each year. He has more than two million resources in print in twenty languages. He primarily writes and speaks on the values of HomeWord, which are Strong Marriages, Confident Parents, Empowered Kids, and Healthy Leaders. Some of his most popular books are Doing Life with Your Adult Children, The Purity Code, Creating an Intimate Marriage, Have Serious Fun, and Finding Joy in the Empty Nest. Jim and his wife, Cathy, live in Southern California and have three grown daughters, Christy, Rebecca, and Heidi; three sons-in-law, Steve, Andy, and Matt; and three grandchildren, James, Charlotte, and Huxley.

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    • 5/5
      You can benefit from this book greatly even if you aren’t a Christian. If you are a Christian, it’s even more valuable to you helping discern when tough love is indeed loving and how loving well when you disagree with your adult kids isn’t the same as condoning their behavior. I loved this book. I rarely give 5 stars. This one earned it.
    • 5/5
      I really love this book I think every person with adult children should read this book I get it a 10
    • 5/5
      This is a great book! Worth the listen for sure! Very helpful!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I definitely loved this book. I am an adult child and I think the principles are sound ?. I'm definitely sharing this

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    • 4/5
      Some great insights and good advice on how to walk alongside our adult children.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      So much wisdom for launching adult children. A must read!

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    • 5/5
      Soooooo timely, as I was beginning to feel lost. I appreciate ALL topics covered and the verbiage to use when communicating with our adult kids, this will ease defenses. Sooooooo HELPFUL! THANK YOU SO MUCH ???

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent! The best advice are those that are applicable and easy to implement. Great book for any parent transitioning in their relationships with their children and others …

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    • 5/5
      So much practical help!!! So thankful I found this book. Just what I needed to help navigate some rough waters with a young adult child.

      2 people found this helpful