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Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children

Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

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Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children

By: Allison Bottke
Narrated by: Margaret Strom
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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 audio.

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

©2008 Allison Gappa Bottke (P)2016 Tantor Christian Living Christianity Parenting & Families Parents & Adult Children Adult Children Step Parenting

Critic Reviews

" Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children is packed full of practical, useable, workable ideas and is a welcome tool for parents of grown children, and parents in pain." (Pam Farrel, author of Men Are Like Waffles)
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The content of the book was okay, but I found the narrator very off-putting because of poor phrasing, pauses in wrong places, and generally a bit monotonous.

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After sifting through much of the conservative Christian perspective, I found quite a bit of useful information. However, it is not good enough to simply say ‘pray to Jesus or God’ as a solution, especially for those of us who don’t read the Bible. The title needs to include the words ‘for Christians’.

Primarily for conservative Christians

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This book is full of wisdom and practical information. Though I am not a religious person I would listen to this book again and again and again. It was so well written. I would recommend this to any parent that is feeling disabled or powerless in their relationship with their adult children or if they are in deep emotional pain in regards to the relationship they have with their adult children.

This book was very very helpful

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Not helpful quotes god and Satan I had to stop listening to this audio book

Religious treadle

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