Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
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Wayne Campbell
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Jim Burns PhD
About this listen
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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Jim Burns (P)2019 ZondervanWhat listeners say about Doing Life with Your Adult Children
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-02-2023
Great Advice
Thought this book gave some amazing thoughtful advice from a Christian perspective with practical examples
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- Anonymous User
- 30-12-2021
Good content but religious undertones
I think the content has merit I just didn’t like the American presenter and I didn’t like how religious the book became.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-10-2023
Too religious
Some great stuff here. And then the final chapter was all about Gods love and blah blah blah so I switched off and didn’t finish it. I’d never have wasted a credit on it if I’d known it was going to be so “Christian”.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-04-2021
Just what I needed at this time!
Great listen, good tips and stories to make me reflect on my ways - excited for the change 😉
Recommend ✅
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- Anonymous User
- 25-02-2023
Extremely helpful and non judgemental
Obviously from a Christian view but some brilliant content from a secular viewpoint as well. Very empathetic and some great strategies to keep the lines of communication open with your adult without losing your own boundaries.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-2023
Practical advice
This was a great book to listen to, lots of practical advice in setting boundaries and having meaningful relationships with your kids and grandkids from a Christian perspective.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-05-2023
Loved it
Some great insights and well worth the listen . Valuable advice for grandparents too. A great book .
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- Rohini Chandrashekar
- 31-08-2024
Patronising and Preachy
The author is obviously knowledgeable on the subject but I found his constant reference to church preachy and his style of narration patronising. I persevered for two hours and had to give it up. I would not recommend this book to modern parents of adult children.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-04-2023
Loved it
Very well said and helpful will listen to again. Back to basics I will practice with my adult children for sure. Especially being there for support not to offer unasked for advice.
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- Margaret McCluskey
- 04-06-2021
Didn't.get.past the first chapter
Too many religious overtones from chapter one, so didn't get past chapter one .
very disappointing
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