Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Holiday Edition
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What is it about the holidays that make parents passive/aggressive? Could it be change? :) Change is inevitable in the parent-child relationship, but it doesn't have to be unbearable. Let's talk about how we can interact with our adult children in a way that's life-giving to both parent and child. I think you'll be encouraged!
Show Notes: http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts/adult-children-holiday-edition
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we're in the most wonderful and maybe stressful time of the year. |
| 0:03.3 | Christmas is just around the corner. |
| 0:05.1 | We've got New Year's parties, all kinds of activities. |
| 0:08.1 | Plan for families and friends. |
| 0:09.4 | If you have extended family or adult kids, it can be difficult to navigate these |
| 0:15.2 | special days after all can't we just do things the way we've always done them |
| 0:19.5 | the answer of course is no change inevitable, but it's rarely easy. |
| 0:24.5 | And today I'm here to help. |
| 0:25.8 | Welcome to the Heidi St. John Podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Stick around. |
| 0:28.9 | I think you're going to be encouraged. Well, welcome to the show today. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm glad that you guys are here. Melissa and I were just talking about this a little while ago |
| 0:44.6 | and one of the most common questions |
| 0:47.8 | that we get here at the podcast |
| 0:49.5 | every single year at Christmas time |
| 0:51.3 | and actually throughout the year too is how to navigate life with adult children. |
| 0:56.4 | What do you do when your kids move out of the house? |
| 0:58.4 | What do you do when your kids get married? |
| 1:00.1 | What do you do when your kids say, oh, hey mom, I'm not coming home for Christmas this year or whatever it is? |
| 1:05.0 | It can be really difficult to navigate sort of the do's and don't of healthy relationships with our adult children. |
| 1:13.4 | But that's exactly what we want to do. |
| 1:15.4 | We want to have relationships with our kids that will last for the rest of our lives |
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