Building Bridges With Your Adult Child
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Brenda Garrison shares her personal parenting journey with her oldest daughter, Katie. She offers some great keys to building relationships with older children and encourages parents to build bridges of love rather than walls of resentment.
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| 0:00.0 | The trail was the biggest, I think, feeling at that moment. |
| 0:05.0 | And just, you know, this belief that that could be going on in my home and in my marriage. |
| 0:13.0 | When Jenny discovered her husband's emotional affair, she was devastated. |
| 0:18.0 | Thankfully, she found resources at our website to heal her marriage. |
| 0:23.0 | I think focus on the family has been almost like a conduit to kind of pull together. |
| 0:29.0 | Two lives that's been broken. |
| 0:32.0 | It pulls them together through brokenness, through hurt and heartache. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Jim Daley. |
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| 1:00.0 | Brenda, what's one thing a mom or dad can do today to build a bridge of love to their adult child who has perhaps made a decision that they don't agree with? |
| 1:13.0 | Number one thing is apologize to your child for your part. |
| 1:16.0 | Because you probably have a part. |
| 1:18.0 | And I think that's going to help them hear you faster than anything is a heart-belipology. |
| 1:23.0 | Well Brenda Garrison is our guest on today's focus on the family and she brings some great perspective today as we look at parenting your adult children. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm John Fuller and your host is focus president and author Jim Daley. |
| 1:38.0 | John here focus on the family. |
| 1:40.0 | We're often talking about parenting the young child. |
| 1:44.0 | And it's important to build a strong foundation and equip your children but I would say your children of all ages. |
| 1:50.0 | I mean you never stop parenting. |
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