#411 – Mary DeMuth – Parenting Adult Children
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, what do you do when your kids aren't kids anymore? |
| 0:06.6 | You do know your children grow up right, and when they grow up, you as a parent have to |
| 0:12.0 | deal with them as adults. |
| 0:14.6 | It's an amazing journey to get your kids into adulthood, but it also is a little weird |
| 0:21.3 | when your kids are making decisions that you may or may not approve of. |
| 0:25.8 | And you may or may not have friction with who they are wired to be as God designed |
| 0:30.5 | them. |
| 0:31.5 | And it also is difficult if your children are making choices that you don't think is |
| 0:36.5 | good for them or can even hurt them. |
| 0:40.1 | What do you do when you are not quite sure how to relate to your adult children? |
| 0:46.2 | Well, I'm going to be talking to Mary Demuth, who is an amazing woman of faith. |
| 0:52.0 | That only is she a lover of God's Word, is she a lover of prayer, is she concerned with |
| 0:58.8 | how each of us engage intimately with Father God, but she is also extremely practical. |
| 1:06.6 | And she has done the work to not only think about, live out, but also write about this |
| 1:13.5 | journey that many of us have with adult children. |
| 1:16.1 | I really think that our conversation is going to be enlightening to you if you are the |
| 1:20.2 | parent of an adult child, but I also think if you're that adult child, it may give |
| 1:25.3 | you insight into what the relationship with your parent could and should be. |
| 1:31.3 | Listen, relationships are tough, people are tough, and the people that are closest to |
| 1:37.5 | us, the ones we've spent half a lifetime living with, if there is friction or challenges |
| 1:45.5 | in communication or opinions about how we are each living our lives, it can get difficult |
| 1:52.2 | to operate in love and in full support and encouragement of those we call family, but |
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