Doing Life with Your Adult Children

Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out

By: Jim Burns Ph.D

Narrated by: Wayne Campbell

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.

I learned so much!

This book made me cry and provoked positive changes. Such a great roadmap. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and stories. I love that scriptures are quoted from the Bible. I'm definitely listening again and buying the Hardcover.

Must Read

Love the book! Will be a better parent and grandparent from reading. A Must read!

This hit home perfectly.

I highly recommend this book for parents with adult children who have struggled. Valuable strategies in dealing with various stages of adult children & parent relationship.

An essential for parents of adult children

A foundation for the transition to parenting adult children. Great principles with good stories that help us to see the value and benefit of this new parenting era.

Setting up good relationships for future family

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. From teaching children, to guiding, and then moving into the future of how to grow healthy relationships with adults.