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Doing Life With Your Adult Children: Book

by Jim Burns

Zondervan / 2019 / Softcover / 192

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Jim Burns’ book, Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out, offers valuable insights and practical advice for parents navigating the complex relationship with their grown children. This book addresses the challenges and opportunities that come with parenting adult children, recognizing that this stage of parenting often lasts longer than raising young children.

Key Principles

Burns presents nine core principles for effectively managing relationships with adult children:

  • Adapting your parental role
  • Avoiding unsolicited advice
  • Understanding your child’s culture
  • Encouraging independence
  • Transitioning from dependence to independence
  • Allowing children to take responsibility
  • Promoting financial independence
  • Maintaining a non-judgmental stance
  • Embracing grandparenthood as a legacy

Practical Wisdom

The book offers practical wisdom on various aspects of parenting adult children:

Changing Dynamics: Burns emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and adapting to the changing parent-child relationship as children grow into adulthood1.

Communication: The author stresses the value of keeping “your mouth shut and the welcome mat out,” highlighting the importance of listening more and advising less3.

Financial Independence: The book addresses the goal of helping adult children achieve financial responsibility and independence1.

Cultural Awareness: Burns encourages parents to be mindful of their adult children’s cultural context and how it may differ from their own.

Testimonials

“If you have kids, and they’re grown-up, or you think they might grow up, you gotta get this book. This is center cut-wisdom and prime guidance on how to make your life a blessing to people you love most.”- JOHN ORTBERG, Pastor

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