Hi, friend. I'm so grateful you've joined me on the Jesus Over Everything show. If you haven't heard the news, we have gone retro this summer. For the months of June and July, we are featuring our five word prayers daily. The show, this show started as, and so many of you love so much, five-minute podcast shows on topics of all kinds, the short inspiration you need for every day of the week.

So enjoy these shows, keep listening all summer, and see you right here back in August for a

powerful season six.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share

the word, prayers in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be

five minutes well spent. So here's a big one on the show today, parental control. If you parents

of little ones are listening, I'll tell you this. First, an encouragement. It gets easier in many

ways logistically. You get so much

of your life back. Isn't that awesome? And then I've also got to shoot you straight about this too.

It gets more complicated as your kids get older in the area of control. As these kids become young

adults, there are things that change, and part of what we do as parents is change with them.

So I want to talk about letting go of parental control, what that looks like, in what key areas it's really important, and how in the world to do it.

Let's go.

Our five-word prayer today, I'm opening with that, is Give Me Wisdom for Now.

And by that, I'm praying a prayer for myself and my fellow parents in the trenches of parenting

older teens and adult kids because we need some now wisdom to maneuver these new strange roads.

There's a lot of parenting advice, lots of books for new parents and raising toddlers and young

kids, but not near as many adult kid parenting books and resources.

And I've had a few people tell me that either that they think the reason for that is that either

the parents or the older teens are too tired by the time they get there to write a book or

they're over that feeling of feeling

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