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Doing Life with Your Adult Children

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Doing Life with Your Adult Children

By: Jim Burns Ph.D
Narrated by: Wayne Campbell
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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.

Christian Living Christianity Communication & Social Skills Parenting & Families Parents & Adult Children Personal Development Adult Children Parenting Young Adults
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I think the content has merit I just didn’t like the American presenter and I didn’t like how religious the book became.

Good content but religious undertones

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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”.

Too religious

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There is a single comment in which the author says he would attend a lesbian daughter’s wedding. It’s a very small part of the book, but for me, it signalled a worldview that differs significantly from a biblical understanding. Because of that, I read the remaining content with more reservation.
I would have appreciated some guidance on navigating differences in parenting philosophies between parents and their adult children. This is often a sensitive and important area for grandparents.
Other than the above mentioned points I thought the book had some very helpful advice.

Warning for Christians reading this

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

Loved it

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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.

Patronising and Preachy

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