Jim Burns has great advice for parents whose children have grown into adulthood.

Now basically we've devoted at least two decades of our life to being in control or at least semi-control

semi-control of our kids and then they became adults and

were not in control anymore.

Welcome to today's episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

I'm John Fuller.

Well, John, today's topic is very relevant to you and me, and I think it's safe to say

there are a lot of parents listening who are going to benefit from this message from Dr. Jim's a good friend, a parenting expert, and the president of Homeward, which seeks to build God honoring families which I applaud and

as Jim is going to explain the transition from being the parent of a child to the parent of an

adult I'm laughing because I'm living it, can be a bit tricky.

And this is new territory for both parties, obviously.

Our kids are new to adulthood and we've never been the parents of adults so since everyone is new in

their role this is a good time to get some godly instruction from someone who's

been there yeah and Jim Burns and his wife Kathy have three grown

daughters and you'll hear some of their stories here as the show unfolds. Let me

mention that Jim is a prolific author and what you're about to hear is based on one of his books called Doing Life

with your adult children. Keep your mouth shut and the welcome mat out. It is a

terrific resource and get a copy from us here at Focus on the Family where the

proceeds go right back into ministry. Here now is Jim Burns speaking at the

Legacy Coalition Grand Parenting Summit just a few years ago on today's episode of

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

I'm going to give you some principles today and these principles are principles that come out of research, but mainly out of my own experience having kids who are transitioning.

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