Doing Life with Your Adult Children, Jim Burns, Ph.D
Doing Life with Your Adult Children, Jim Burns, Ph.D
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Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out

Author: Jim Burns, Ph.D

Narrator: Wayne Campbell

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 03/26/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

About Jim Burns, Ph.D

Jim Burns is the founder of HomeWord. He speaks to thousands of people around the world each year and has more than three million resources in print in over twenty languages. His popular podcast, HomeWord with Jim Burns, continues to grow. Jim writes and speaks on how to enable strong marriages, confident parents, empowered kids, and healthy leaders. His books include Doing Life with Your Adult Children; Finding Joy in the Empty Nest; Have Serious Fun; and Creating an Intimate Marriage. Jim and his wife, Cathy, live in Southern California and have three daughters, three sons-in-law, and four grandchildren.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan on March 21, 2021

2.5 stars. Although I realize I’m not the target audience for this book, a lot of the content made me want to scream. There are some excellent, wise, helpful pointers in here for sure - especially regarding learning not to give unsolicited advice. There’s also a lot of “don’t worry....your adult chi......more

Goodreads review by Clayton on September 16, 2020

Practical, common sense advice about setting boundaries and building bridges with adult children who are either just starting into adulthood, stuck in a failure-to-launch, making self-destructive choices, or have walked away from Jesus. There is also a decent chapter on grandparenting. What was miss......more