Finding Your New Normal in Relating to Your Adult Children (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kathy Koch wants to help parents adjust to a “new normal” when their children become adults. The relationship has changed, and parents of adult kids need to change their expectations, listen more and advise less, break free from codependency, and give these new adults space and freedom to become the people God made them to be.
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| 0:30.5 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll explore the relationship between parents |
| 0:35.7 | and their adult children. |
| 0:37.4 | Dad, we need to talk. |
| 0:39.4 | Sure, honey. What's up? When you use the car, need a few bucks? |
| 0:42.7 | No, no. Listen, Dad, I really think the time has come for me to move out of the house. |
| 0:48.6 | Honey, why? This is so sudden. |
| 0:53.1 | Dad, I'm 35 years old. |
| 0:55.6 | What? All 35-year-old girls need to move out of their parents' houses? |
| 0:59.7 | I thought you liked it here. I'd miss my little girl. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm not your little girl anymore, Dad. I've been married for seven years. |
| 1:07.5 | I know, I know. And we love Bob. Bill. |
| 1:10.6 | Bill. Your mother and I think the world of Bill. |
| 1:13.6 | Don't we think the world of Bill, honey? Bill who? Listen, dad, I'm getting older. It's time that I led my |
| 1:19.6 | own life to give my family an identity of its own. Why? Well, as our children get older, |
| 1:26.8 | obviously some things need to change. |
| 1:29.5 | And today we're going to learn how change can be a good thing. |
| 1:33.1 | Thanks for joining us today. |
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