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🗓️ 25 November 2025
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What if your adult child is not as responsible as you raised them to be? John and Danny bring up common frustrations parents of adult kids have today. Then, Jim Daly talks to Dr. Gary Chapman, who tells an encouraging story of a couple, Steve and Linda, whose daughter went from struggling to thriving.
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| 0:00.0 | Jasmine knows the devastation of loss all too well. Her premature son died after four months in the hospital, |
| 0:07.7 | and then she experienced a miscarriage. It was hard to worship. It was hard to pray, but by listening to this |
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| 0:29.2 | equip other hurting families before it's too late. By listening to this podcast or a focus on family, |
| 0:36.1 | it will help you tremendously with your faith and how to grow |
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| 1:02.4 | My wife and I are kind of thrifty, and we've had to be based on my income, |
| 1:07.8 | especially early on in my career in Christian radio, I was not making very much |
| 1:13.1 | money and we were happy, but we really had to be thrifty. We've carried that through even to |
| 1:19.4 | today and my children are all pretty cheap at some point, but one of my daughters said, |
| 1:24.2 | I'm horrible at budgeting. Yeah, so I said, well, did we just not teach you how to budget? |
| 1:32.3 | Or we maybe we could have been more transparent about our budgeting process? She said, no, no, you |
| 1:38.6 | showed us. I just never really learned. And now I am. So good news. It's never too late to influence your adult child. They may not |
| 1:48.6 | want your help, which could be a good sign. But I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, |
| 1:54.4 | who heads up our parenting team. Danny, we get a lot of concerns from parents, a lot of parents |
| 2:00.7 | calling in saying, my relationship |
| 2:03.4 | with my adult child is really hard. |
| 2:05.9 | And I think a lot of it is because my kids aren't doing what I want. |
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