ADULT CHILD STILL HOME? WHY YOU COULD BE SETTING THEM UP TO FAIL

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Transformed Podcast Episode 121 | May 01, 2025 Dr. Greg Gifford tackles the tough realities of adult children living at home. Discover why setting clear expectations could be the most loving thing you do for your grown kids. Learn how productivity, financial responsibility, and moral standards shape a true launch into adulthood. – Preorder the new book, Lies My Therapist Told Me, by Fortis Institute Fellow Dr. Greg Gifford now! https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/liesmytherapisttoldme – Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is?
0:01.2	What is?
0:01.5	What is?
0:02.1	What is biblical counseling?
0:03.8	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.5	God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.9	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.4	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's
0:30.1	University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford and I think I know my name this morning.
0:43.0	And you've written in to ask questions about adult kids living at home. So I want to,
0:47.4	I want to address some of those big picture questions. One parent wrote in asking about a son
0:53.3	who's not really a self-starter, keeping to
0:55.8	himself doing hobbies. And as we think through this, I haven't done a lot of episodes. And on our TV
1:02.4	series, you haven't seen a lot of what it's like to address the adult kid living at home. And this is
1:08.9	hard because I do think there's a different response for an adult son living at home. And this is hard because I do think there's a different response for
1:12.0	an adult son living at home versus an adult daughter. Should they live at home?
1:19.2	Technically, like should they be living with us or can they? How long is it before they're kind of being
1:25.0	lame and lazy and idle and exploiting the system instead of using it to launch into this next season of life?
1:32.7	Are they paying rent?
1:34.8	Do they, should they pay rent?
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