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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Adult Children

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Do Your Adult Kids Really Need Your Money?

Do my adult kids really need my money? Answering that question often brings up other, more difficult questions like how much or how often? Approaching this topic requires your patience, grace, and ultimately, your ability to focus on what’s really important about money.

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Parenting Emerging Adults: Boundaries and Limits

Navigating a role shift when adult children move back home.

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Parenting Emerging Adults: Adaptability

Adaptability is a big part of helping older children “leave the nest” well.

Bless Your Grown Children

Step into a new area of relationship with your adult child

Three Things Parents of Adult Children in the Home Should Consider

How can parents help adult children without enabling them?

Communicating End-of-Life Wishes

More folks are realizing it is a natural and necessary way of alleviating pain, misunderstandings and of bringing considerable peace of mind for the whole family.

Taking Action

What will we do when we stop living our adult children’s lives for them?

Is My Teen Just Angry or Is She an Angry Teen?

How to recognize the causes of teenage anger, and whether it’s just pushback and a desire for respect, or perhaps a more serious discipline issue.

One Family’s Story

How can parents stop enabling and set boundaries for adult children?

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From Parent to Consultant

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes “Mom, it took me forever to get to work, and I didn’t get to stop for dinner. You know how awful I feel when I don’t eat, and I don’t have any breaks to go out and get something. Can you pick up a burrito and drop it off?” This …

Marriage: The Promise/Oath Stage

The important thing is that you do something creative and memorable to initiate your son into manhood.

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Empty Nest Syndrome

In This Series: 1. Parenting Adult Children 2. Empty Nest Syndrome 3. When Adult Children Move Back Home 4. Three Things Parents of Adult Children in the Home Should Consider 5. When Adult Children Reject the Faith 6. Communicating End-of-Life Wishes 7. Responding in Love to an Adult Gay Child It will be gone before …