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- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Practical advice and hopeful encouragement for the tough yet rewarding transition to parenting grown kids.
If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of 18. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.
In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, parenting expert Jim Burns helps you navigate one of the richest and most challenging seasons of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these:
- Is it okay 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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Debra Metcalfe
- 2024-02-18
Religious emphasis was not expected and annoyed me
I prefer not to hear about religion but would rather listen to fact based information.
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- Kim E.
- 2022-04-18
Exactly what I was looking for
Parenting adult children is not easy. This book provided me with the tools I need. Will help me to be the best parent of adult children. It is an easy and thought provoking book and helps me understand the transition that must happen to have good adult to adult relationships with my children.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-01-03
Timely
This book was exactly what I needed, when I needd it.
I felt like Jim Burns was a “fly on the wall” in my house. Enough relatable everyday situational life comparisons, blended delicately with just enough Biblical Christian overtones.
Super insightful & helpful. Want to share with several close friends. Thank you Jim Burns.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-04-30
A needed adult with children book
Wish I had this book 5 years ago.
I have a lot of advice that I can take away with me. Thank you.
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- Caralee McKinney
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Practical help!
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- JENNIFER
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Fantastic book
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- Karen Meunier
- 2023-02-18
Great Book
I loved the wake-up call this book gave me as I listened to it. Wish I would have listened to it 6 years ago
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- K.A.D.
- 2022-03-13
Focuses on parents who have money.
I really enjoyed listening to this book, however there isn’t a lot of information for parents that don’t have money to give their children allowances, pay for college, etc.
Unfortunately a lot of my children’s friends have parents that have a lot more resources than I do, so it would be great to have some ideas on how to move their thoughts from dissatisfaction and discontent of what they don’t have to how they can obtain those things on their own.
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- Anne Nicoll
- 2023-01-16
Basic and little real content
This book has a few helpful parts but over all it was rather light in content and very basic. The religious components add little and the stories are simplistic.
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- Lesley Billings
- 2023-04-08
Religious disclaimer required
I was looking for tools and tips for day-to-day living with my young adult children at home. I have raised good kids who will be good citizens and independent adults. We live in an expensive area of the country so they are living at home while they finish college so funding can be focused on schooling rather than housing which we welcome. However… their general lack of housekeeping skills and, at times, unusual hours wear thin occasionally. I was looking for tiles on day-to-day living in harmony. I choose the wrong book.
I almost abandoned this book but kept listening partially hoping for a hidden gem but mostly out of sheer determination just to finish it. I’m not against religion, my father is a minister and I grew up going to church. I agreed that it is our primary job as parents to raise healthy children and teach them good morals and values but research tells us that those are instilled by young teenage hood. The concept of refusing financial assistance to my grown kids because they are not living MY values such as ‘being gay’ (a part of the person, not a value) or living with a mate before they’re married is so very 1950s I had hoped we had evolved past it.
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