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Doing Life with Your Adult Children

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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.

Christian Living Christianity Communication & Social Skills Parenting & Families Parents & Adult Children Personal Development Adult Children Parenting Young Adults
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It's assumed that the child in question is from a family that is rich enough to send them to college when many kids can't or won't go to college.

l am not the only one who has occasional worries about my adult child

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Good narration and read very well. Good advice if you can zone out to the constant references to religion and faith. I couldn’t.

Not for everyone

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This book contained many practical insights into how to parent adult children. It is a very useful and insightful book packed with wisdom. Thank you Jim Burns and Wayne Campbell

Superb

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It’s religious so that should be highlighted before you buy, I was disappointed by the book

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I wish I'd known these practical tips earlier. I have 4 young adult sons and have been stumbling around doing life with them. Ive got very discouraged but now I know how to go through this stage with more confidence. Thank you!

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