Episode 6: Parenting Adult Children

As children leave home and start their own lives, our relationship with them changes in joyful and challenging ways. We talk about our own experiences and share wisdom from others.

Resources

“Surgeon General’s Warning: Parenting May Be Hazardous to Your Health” by Daniel DeVise. USA Today, September 13, 2024. Parenting may be hazardous to your health, surgeon general warns

“Parents Are Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives, and Fine with It” by Claire Cain Miller. The New York Times, February 9, 2024. Parents Are Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives, and Fine With It - The New York Times

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. Penguin Press, 2024.

Loving Your Adult Children: The Heartache of Parenting and the Hope of the Gospel by Gaye Clark. Crossway, 2024

Building a Healthy, Rewarding Relationship with Your Adult Child: Successful Strategies, Expectations, and Self-Care for Parents by Heidi Berr, 2022

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