Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

You don't have to know. to ever since, ever since we've got you left. Welcome to

Sizzy Larson Live. Always honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact, I look forward to

bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

that deepen your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real

presence in your life. Well, if you have adult children, maybe you've asked yourself a few questions

like this. Is it okay to give advice to my grown children? What's the difference between

enabling and actually helping? What boundaries should I have in place if my adult child moves back

home? What should I do if it seems like my adult child isn't maturing

into adulthood? What's a healthy and appropriate way to relate to my adult child's significant other?

How can I support my adult child when I can't support their values? Well, if you've wondered such

things, you've come to the right place. Dr. Jim Burns joins me today to talk about his book,

Doing Life with Your Adult Children.

Keep your mouth shut and welcome Matt out. I want you to know he and I talked about this a couple years ago when the book came out. But because so many of you have asked me to cover this topic, I thought, who better than Dr. Jim Burns? So let me tell you about him. We'll get him on the show. Dr. Jim Burns is president of Homeward and the executive director of Homeward Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University. He has close to listen to this, 2 million resources in print in 20 languages. He's authored multiple books, speaks to thousands of people each year. He and his wife Kathy live in Southern California. They have three grown daughters, two sons-in-law, two grandchildren, and that number may have changed since he wrote this book.

One other thing I want you to know is Dr. Jim is on a writing deadline as we speak and took time

out to spend time with us. We've got a handful of copies of Dr. Jim's book to give away.

Text the word book to 877-933-2484. And any questions, comments you have about parenting, connecting with your adult children, send those in a separate text. Dr. Jim Burns, what an honor to speak to you again today. God bless you, sir. Susie, it's great to be with you. And I have to tell you that every morning I see your name. Here's why. Because Kathy, my wife, is reading blessings for the morning. Oh, wow. Older devotional book here. It's on our kitchen table. And just the other day, I started to talk to her. She was reading that I was going to interrupt her in her way. And she said, you know what? God and Susie and I, we have a date i'll be done about you know about two minutes

so you know you're a part of our now you're part of our life and uh you know it was all your

fault that i got interrupted actually was of course it is she was still spending time of god but

it sits right on our kitchen table she doesn't that's where she does you know all places to do

your devotions it's at the kitchen table with her cup of coffee. And there you go. So there you are. It's a green. I can still see it. Blessings for the morning. Green, I just, a cup of coffee and a Bible. Wow, I love it. I don't know why, but that makes me so happy that you kind of had to wait for us to have a little time.

I don't know why. That just made my day. I'm going to send her a copy of my newer one prevail. I'm going to, we'll have to connect after. I'll make sure she gets a copy. What an honor. Oh, that would be. She would love that. She would love that. Yeah. Well, again, I just marvel. I mean, you were literally on the home stretch of this next manuscript that you would take time out.

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