Doing Life with Your Adult Children : Keep your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out; book #19

 

This book has been sitting my by bedside for a while and I decided it was time to pick it up and read it.  Luckily, we haven't had too much trouble yet, but its good to be prepared.  Most of it was basic stuff, but still good.

If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. 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 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.  (picture and description from Amazon)

Now that I have a REAL job where I get up and leave by 6:30 I'm not sure if I'll be able to read as much as I like to, but you can't keep a good reader down! :)

Keep Reading!
O:)
Melissa