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🗓️ 30 October 2025
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How do you keep your relationship with your kids strong when they reach adulthood? Dr. Gary Chapman and Jim Daly provide a few perspectives on what it looks like to be a successful parent of young adults. Then, Danny brings up how you can be there for your kids, even when they're fully independent.
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| 0:32.4 | Well, there's no doubt that as your child launches out of the home, there's a whole new season of parenting |
| 0:38.6 | ahead. And it may be a little rocky. Well, we're going to hear today about how you can help |
| 0:43.9 | manage the relationship and really keep things in a healthy place. I'm John Fuller, along with |
| 0:50.7 | Dr. Danny Werthe, who leads our parenting team. And Danny, you are a relatively new empty nester. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. I'm in the club. You're in the club, yes. When we hit that spot, and it was only temporary for us for a variety of reasons, but when we hit that spot, it was glorious. Are you finding it to be pretty good? There are moments that are glorious. They're moments. |
| 1:11.1 | We miss. |
| 1:12.4 | We remember moments. |
| 1:14.1 | We miss the life that each of our kids brought to the home. |
| 1:18.5 | My son's now 22 and my daughter's 20. |
| 1:21.3 | They're enjoying spreading their wings and going after it. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah, we miss just going out to dinner with them, having them at the dinner table, being able to tackle my son, hearing my daughter singing in the house. |
| 1:34.7 | You mentioned something as kind of innocuous as just watching a football game, not quite the same without Alex. |
| 1:40.7 | It's different. |
| 1:41.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah, sat down and remember the moments we sit and watch a half |
| 1:46.9 | or so together. And this time, this was the beginning of the football season, and I, he wasn't there |
| 1:53.3 | next to me and missed him. Still enjoyed the game, sat there with my, with my wife. We've been getting |
| 1:58.3 | to do more walks together. I've enjoyed the investment in our marriage. |
| 2:02.6 | Yes. |
| 2:03.6 | The reality right now, I'm loving that part and missing our kids. |
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