#540 – How to Parent Adult Children Well
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Are you struggling with parenting your adult children? If their need for independence creates tension in your home, then I’ve got some advice and encouragement for you.
In this episode, I share my journey from parenting little ones to coaching adult children. The lessons I’ve learned along the way are too good not to share with you. Whether you’re a new mom or a veteran parent, there is something for everyone in this insightful conversation.
Highlights from Today’s Episode
- Parenting with presence
- Coaching with compassion
- Letting the Holy Spirit lead
Related Resources
- Listen to my conversation with Mary DeMuth on parenting adult children.
- Hear from Alli Worthington on embracing imperfect motherhood.
- Grab my book She’s Still There to remember the girl in you, even as you raise your children.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | My name is Crystal Evanshurst, and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. |
| 0:25.9 | How many of you thought that by now your kids, your adult, young adult children, |
| 0:34.5 | will be out of the house. But instead you find yourself sharing your space again. |
| 0:39.2 | And if you find yourself balancing, what does it mean to help my young adult children, my adult |
| 0:44.2 | children, my older children without enabling them or supporting them without sacrificing your |
| 0:51.2 | own peace, your own relationship, your own season of life? If you are feeling like, why is this a pull, why is this a struggle, why is this a tug of |
| 1:00.7 | war, it's because you are not alone. We are out here in these streets, y'all, mothering, |
| 1:06.1 | parenting, older children, and trying to figure out how do we do it. And if you are in that zone, you are not alone. |
| 1:14.0 | And we're going to talk about how you can help your adult children and move from parenting to |
| 1:20.1 | coaching. Be healthy. Not lose your mind. We're going to do this on today. You hear me? On today. |
| 1:26.1 | Let's do it. Y'all, we are in a season where |
| 1:29.4 | according to Pew Research, and this research was done about five years ago, which is probably |
| 1:34.4 | shifted a lot because of COVID, but more than half of what we would consider to be young adults. |
| 1:39.7 | And when I'm referring to young adults, I'm referring to primarily ages 18, 1029, they're living with their |
| 1:44.6 | parents. This is the highest, and that was in 2020. It's the highest since the Great Depression. |
| 1:50.2 | Now, we know why that is. We know that there are reasons. Two of those are money is funny, and it is hard |
| 1:56.1 | to make it out in these streets. And so adult children are moving back in with their parents, |
| 2:00.7 | because it's just |
| 2:01.5 | hard to fund their life. The second reason is because we have a generation of people that got |
| 2:08.7 | doubled down on during the COVID season that Gen Zers in particular who are really struggling, |
| 2:15.6 | just struggling with the weight of life and |
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