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  • Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
  • Written by: Jim Burns PhD
  • Narrated by: Wayne Campbell
  • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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Doing Life with Your Adult Children

Written 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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Religious emphasis was not expected and annoyed me

I prefer not to hear about religion but would rather listen to fact based information.

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Exactly what I was looking for

Parenting adult children is not easy. This book provided me with the tools I need. Will help me to be the best parent of adult children. It is an easy and thought provoking book and helps me understand the transition that must happen to have good adult to adult relationships with my children.

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Very Informative Book

As we are empty nesting and a new grandchild,navigating the waters can be tricky. I vowed not to offer advice. That is working grand. They don’t need it either. Wish I had this book when raising my children. Thanks. Audrey

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Timely

This book was exactly what I needed, when I needd it.
I felt like Jim Burns was a “fly on the wall” in my house. Enough relatable everyday situational life comparisons, blended delicately with just enough Biblical Christian overtones.
Super insightful & helpful. Want to share with several close friends. Thank you Jim Burns.

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A needed adult with children book

Wish I had this book 5 years ago.
I have a lot of advice that I can take away with me. Thank you.

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Practical help!

I appreciated the simple practical help that Jim gives. Not from a pompous platform just a guy with kids speaking about what works and what doesn’t.

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Fantastic book

This book is great for parents who have late teens to young adults. I thought it was packed with great ideas and information on how to launch your young adults, have relationships with the future spouses of your children and how to be fun and engaging grandparents. So happy I found this book.

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Great Book

I loved the wake-up call this book gave me as I listened to it. Wish I would have listened to it 6 years ago

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Focuses on parents who have money.

I really enjoyed listening to this book, however there isn’t a lot of information for parents that don’t have money to give their children allowances, pay for college, etc.
Unfortunately a lot of my children’s friends have parents that have a lot more resources than I do, so it would be great to have some ideas on how to move their thoughts from dissatisfaction and discontent of what they don’t have to how they can obtain those things on their own.

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Basic and little real content

This book has a few helpful parts but over all it was rather light in content and very basic. The religious components add little and the stories are simplistic.

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