When Your Adult Child Strays: Trading Heartache for Hope
About this audiobook
No matter what comes between you and your adult child, you can still foster a strong relationship.
Parents are often stunned when their children reach adulthood and disregard the values, practices, and faith commitments they were raised with. Whether these differences are over church, politics, sexuality and gender, addiction, or another issue, parents struggle to know what went wrong.
But there's good news: In the midst of uncertainty, you can trade heartache for hope.
In When Your Adult Child Strays, author, speaker, and podcaster Jim Burns gives practical advice on key areas of conflict and offers guidance on how to foster a strong relationship with your adult child. As a trusted expert on family, parenting, and marriage, Jim will help you:
- Rebuild trust with an adult child who has rejected your traditions
- Lower your emotional reactivity in heated conversations
- Learn how to validate your adult child's feelings without trying to be right
- Move from advice giver to mentor
- Understand the differences between Nomads, Prodigals, and Exiles
- Avoid being defined by your adult child's choices
Maintaining a healthy relationship with your adult child is hard. But with God's help, hope and healing are within reach.
Visuals, an assessment, and reflection questions can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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About the author
Jim Burns is the founder of HomeWord. He speaks to thousands of people around the world each year and has more than three million resources in print in over twenty languages. His popular podcast, HomeWord with Jim Burns, continues to grow. Jim writes and speaks on how to enable strong marriages, confident parents, empowered kids, and healthy leaders. His books include Doing Life with Your Adult Children; Finding Joy in the Empty Nest; Have Serious Fun; and Creating an Intimate Marriage. Jim and his wife, Cathy, live in Southern California and have three daughters, three sons-in-law, and four grandchildren.
