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slash parenting podcast. You know parenting is wonderful but there's some truth to this observation someone made.

While young children are physically exhausting, adult children can I'm John Fuller and I can only say amen to that. Today we want to

give you some help for setting boundaries with your adult children. I'm John Fuller

and along with me is Danny Huerta, the Vice

President of our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family.

Danny is a licensed counselor as well and I'm sure that you have seen a lot of mistakes Danny that parents with

adult kids have made and you're keeping a list of things to avoid when your

kids hit that age of 18, 19, 20.

That is a tough stage.

In fact, it's our number one counseling

calm parenting on the counseling line

for focus on the family.

Because there's so much out of a parent's control.

And the mistakes that parents consistently make

with adult children is trying to fix them,

trying to control them, and trying to rescue them.

They're on their journey now, and you get to step back and maybe be a coach,

maybe process life with them, and then putting boundaries that are necessary for them to continue to grow and to continue to discover their dependence and relationship with the and just know that your expectations need to be looked at as to what you're expecting

that adult relationship to be like and bringing them to a place of prayer for

yourself in that conversation with God.

That's really good and let's go ahead and listen now to a conversation Jim Daly and I had with

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