S3 17: Having Adult Children and Honoring Our Parents: How Do We Do This Well? With Cindy Rollins
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Cindy Rollins returns for her third interview, this time to talk about the difficult stage of life when your kids grow up and become adults. Cindy, whose nine children are all adults now, shares with us both the goodness and the struggles of this stage of life and parenting. We also talk about honoring our parents in adulthood. Cindy's wisdom and insight are helpful in thinking through this emotional and sometimes difficult stage of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:12.2 | And I'm Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:13.7 | We're so glad you're here. |
| 0:18.4 | Today on the Strong Women Podcasts, our guest is Cindy Rollins, who is returning for the third time on the podcast. |
| 0:26.6 | And this time, she's going to talk to us about the difficult stage of life when our kids grow up and become adults. |
| 0:34.5 | Cindy is the mom of nine children who are all adults now, and she shares with us the good |
| 0:40.7 | and the struggles of this stage. We'll also be talking about what it means to honor our parents |
| 0:47.4 | as we go into adulthood and how we ought to view our parents. Cindy's wisdom and insight are so helpful in thinking through this emotional and |
| 0:57.4 | sometimes difficult stage of life. |
| 1:00.0 | We hope you enjoy our conversation. |
| 1:08.1 | So today on the Strong Wind Podcast, we're going to talk about a topic with Cindy Rollins that we've actually, Cindy, had a hard time finding people to talk to us about, which I don't know why, but maybe we'll discover why today. But it's the topic of adult children and how to be in relationship with them. Why is it so hard? Is it hard? |
| 1:31.3 | And I think it's something that we all can relate to because even if we don't have kids, if we're adults, we have parents or we did have parents. |
| 1:40.2 | So it's just a thing that we all go through, whether we're the kid or the parent, but you have nine adult children and you've always been honest about struggles and triumphs and all the things. |
| 1:56.4 | And you were willing to talk to Sarah and I. So we jumped on this opportunity. |
| 2:01.2 | Cindy, why is this stage of adult children so difficult? |
| 2:04.9 | Or do you think it is? |
| 2:06.4 | I think it's difficult. |
| 2:07.7 | I think what happens is I think for one reason parents won't talk about it and moms won't talk about it is that they're slightly demoralized by |
| 2:19.0 | parenting. That's my new thing. I always say parenting is demoralizing. That is not what |
| 2:24.9 | anybody wants to hear, but it isn't that it's just a big failure. It's just that we come to it |
| 2:32.0 | with just the most idealistic dreams and plans for our children, |
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