570. Stop Worrying About Your Adult Kids
Better Than Happy
Jody Moore
4.8 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Are you constantly thinking about your adult children, worrying about their choices, or wondering if you did enough as a parent?
What if most of that anxiety isn't serving you or them?
This week, I break down why worrying about your adult children's lives is really fear disguised as wisdom, why trying to control outcomes actually disconnects you from your kids, and what to do instead.
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| 0:00.0 | If you have adult children and you're spending a lot of your time thinking about them, wondering |
| 0:05.2 | how they're doing, worrying about them, thinking maybe you should have done something different |
| 0:09.5 | in the past or maybe you should be doing something different right now or just worrying about |
| 0:13.5 | what's going to happen next. I want to tell you something. This is not necessary, probably not |
| 0:19.2 | useful. And today I'm going to teach you exactly how to stop doing it. |
| 0:23.9 | Welcome to Better Than Happy. I'm Jody Moore. This is episode 570. How to Stop Worrying about your adult kids. |
| 0:31.4 | Let's go. Welcome to Better Than Happy, the podcast where we apply all the tools of psychology, |
| 0:37.2 | human behavior, and mindfulness |
| 0:38.5 | to live our best lives, navigate challenges, and achieve our goals. I'm Jody Moore, and I'll be your |
| 0:44.4 | coach today. Let's do it. Hey there, my friends, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:50.1 | I've been doing a new series on Instagram. If you want to go follow me on Instagram, Jody Moore Coaching, and I call it coaching for my car. |
| 0:58.6 | And I just have a bunch of note cards with questions that people wrote down when I've gone to speak at live events. |
| 1:04.6 | I ask people sometimes write down one thing in your life that could be better or different or that's making your life harder. |
| 1:09.5 | And so I have these really sweet, real life, real people, questions and issues. And as I was going through a bunch |
| 1:16.8 | of them to find one to make a video on for Instagram, I noticed that probably 80% of them |
| 1:23.1 | have to do with people worrying about their adult children. Things like my children have left the church, |
| 1:29.7 | or I'm afraid that my son doesn't really like me, or what if I don't get to be in their lives enough, |
| 1:35.8 | or sometimes worries about grandkids, or how often we get to see grandkids. Sometimes people saying, |
| 1:41.5 | if I had done things differently in the past, would something be different right now? |
| 1:45.6 | And I thought this would be a really good topic to do a podcast episode on because I know it's on a lot of your minds. |
| 1:51.6 | And I do think that what's difficult is that when our children are younger, when we're talking about |
| 1:56.2 | toddler problems, even young elementary school kid problems maybe. We talk about it with each other |
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