Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Ch..., Allison Bottke
Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Ch..., Allison Bottke
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Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children
Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Author: Allison Bottke

Narrator: Margaret Strom

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/24/2016


Synopsis

Writing from firsthand experience, Allison Bottke identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son, in bondage—and how she overcame them. Additional real-life stories from other parents appear throughout the text.

A tough-love guide to coping with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.—a six-step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives.

S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money
A = Assemble a Support Group
N = Nip Excuses in the Bud
I = Implement Rules/Boundaries
T = Trust Your Instincts
Y = Yield Everything to God

About Allison Bottke

Allison Bottke is the award-winning author of the acclaimed Setting Boundaries series, which includes Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents, Setting Boundaries with Difficult People, Setting Boundaries with Food, Setting Boundaries for Women, and The Young Women's Guide to Setting Boundaries. She is the founder of the SANITY Support Group, an outreach based on the Setting Boundaries series (more than 150,000 sold). Her other books include the God Answers Prayers series, and she is the founder and general editor of more than a dozen volumes in the popular God Allows U-Turns anthology. She has written or edited more than 30 nonfiction and fiction books, and is a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs. Allison lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on March 18, 2014

I loved this book. It gave me new tools to use with my adult children. And peace with the decisions I make with them also. Three years after reading this book I still reflect on what I read in her book. Allison used her circumstances and her life choices to show us that as parents it is ok to let ou......more

Goodreads review by Joe on August 29, 2016

Boundaries can be hard to set with anyone. And for those who are followers of Jesus it can also seem “un-Christian”. However setting boundaries in life is important. (See previous boundaries post.) It feels like we’re restricting others. However, when we set boundaries, we also allow the other perso......more

Goodreads review by Allyson on September 05, 2023

Highly recommend by several people to give insight into circumstances. Although we don’t have adult children, very very insightful. Good to forward thinking how we can parent in the future differently too.......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on November 06, 2019

It’s not that I found this book bad, it just wasn’t what I was needing or expecting based on the sample I read. I had to pick this book up twice to finish it. This book is heavily focused on addiction issues and religious beliefs. I fully believe in Let Go and Let God, and I have faith and beliefs t......more

Goodreads review by Angie on January 06, 2019

Insightful, wise & challenging words on appropriate relationships with our adult children.......more