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If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. 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 the toughest and the most rewarding parts of parenting your grown kids. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these
- 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.
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"Jim Burns, the president of HomeWord and the executive director the HomeWord Center for You and Family at Azusa Pacific University, has written a short, but helpful book on how parents can relate to their adult children. Since I have three adult children plus their respective spouses, I wanted to see what he had to offer.
First and foremost, Jim points out that our role and relationship with our kids needs to change once they become adults. The tagline of the book, “Keep your mouth shut and the welcome mat out†focuses on not giving advice unless it is asked for as well as maintaining a welcoming atmosphere even when you don’t necessarily agree with their choices. The author dives into topics such as understanding the difference between helping financially and enabling our kids, how to set boundaries in the event our children move back home, how to relate to our children’s spouses, and how to support our grown children when we don’t necessarily support their values.
While Jim presents nine practical principles, he also cautions that life is messy and doesn’t always work according to the plan. We need great grace during those times. He also includes a series of questions for each chapter that can be used for personal reflection and/or group discussion.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own."
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Doing Life with Your Adult Children Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out edition by Jim Burns Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
- Great read dealing with my adult children. But also great being an adult child and thinking of my own parents and my own faults along the way
- This is an encouraging book with specific suggestions to help parents have a great relationship with their adult children.
- Excellent book for those parents with adult children.
- Jim Burns, the president of HomeWord and the executive director the HomeWord Center for You and Family at Azusa Pacific University, has written a short, but helpful book on how parents can relate to their adult children. Since I have three adult children plus their respective spouses, I wanted to see what he had to offer.
First and foremost, Jim points out that our role and relationship with our kids needs to change once they become adults. The tagline of the book, “Keep your mouth shut and the welcome mat out†focuses on not giving advice unless it is asked for as well as maintaining a welcoming atmosphere even when you don’t necessarily agree with their choices. The author dives into topics such as understanding the difference between helping financially and enabling our kids, how to set boundaries in the event our children move back home, how to relate to our children’s spouses, and how to support our grown children when we don’t necessarily support their values.
While Jim presents nine practical principles, he also cautions that life is messy and doesn’t always work according to the plan. We need great grace during those times. He also includes a series of questions for each chapter that can be used for personal reflection and/or group discussion.
Disclosure of Material Connection I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. - Having been on one side of this coin, and being fairly sure that at some point soon my husband and I will be on the other side, this was a book that I hoped would impart much wisdom. Mostly what I learned from this book was that my own parents did an excellent job when I had to move back home after college....and if you've never had to do that, it's an eye-opening experience to be back in your parents' home after being on your own for so long!! So while I didn't feel that I, personally, got anything from this book because my models did most or all of these things, I think it would be a great book for those who may have had less-pleasant experiences, or who have no experience with this sort of thing at all. The author speaks candidly, and realistically, about expectations and boundaries, as well as how to help the child to become self-sufficient. One topic that wasn't addressed that I would be interested to learn more about is helping special-needs adult children to become more independent, too.
