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  • By: Jim Burns PhD
  • Narrated by: Wayne Campbell
  • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (45 ratings)

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Doing Life with Your Adult Children

By: Jim Burns PhD
Narrated by: Wayne Campbell
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Publisher's Summary

Practical advice and hopeful encouragement for the tough yet rewarding transition to parenting grown kids.

If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of 18. 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 one of the richest and most challenging seasons of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these:

  • Is it okay 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 Zondervan

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Great Advice

Thought this book gave some amazing thoughtful advice from a Christian perspective with practical examples

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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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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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Loved it

Some great insights and well worth the listen . Valuable advice for grandparents too. A great book .

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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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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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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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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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Preachy

Really didn’t need the bible quotes and patronising tone. Gave up at chapter 2. Slow and tedious.

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Too preachy

Too preachy and old fashioned. Not relevant to my parenting style. Do not recommend this

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