S5 14: Parenting Adult Children with Gaye Clark
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
From bookstore shelves to social media groups, there’s no shortage of guidance out there for raising babies, toddlers, and teens. But what about those of us parenting adult children? What does it look like to love them well without over-parenting or disengaging? What if they’re estranged from us? Gaye Clark joins us this week to share her well-earned wisdom about walking with Christ as we parent adult children.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 0:16.0 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman |
| 0:22.3 | and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:32.7 | Hey everyone. I'm so glad that you're here with us today. If you are enjoying these conversations on the |
| 0:38.6 | podcast, will you rate us and write a review wherever you get your podcast? That helps other people |
| 0:44.4 | find us, so I really appreciate that. Well, my guest today is Gay Clark. She's a nurse. She has |
| 0:50.1 | worked with young adults for more than 20 years. She's a widow, mother of two adult children, |
| 0:56.0 | and a grandmother to four little ones. The youngest is a month old, which is crazy. I've had |
| 1:02.0 | several listeners ask me to have a guest on to discuss parenting adult children. So I've been |
| 1:09.6 | on the hunt for someone who could help us think about this topic |
| 1:14.1 | well. And recently someone sent me Gay Clark's book, Loving Your Adult Children. And the subtitle is |
| 1:22.0 | The Heartache of Parenting and the Hope of the Gospel. So I know you all are going to enjoy this conversation and |
| 1:30.1 | learn some wisdom from Gay. Thank you so much Gay for coming. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:35.9 | Yes. Well, I want to start with Little Gay. Did you grow up in a Christian home? |
| 1:42.8 | I grew up in a military family who was very devoted to |
| 1:46.3 | attending a Baptist church. And it really wasn't until I was nine when my eight-year-old |
| 1:52.4 | cousin at the time shared with me that she had given her life to Christ, that I knew there was |
| 1:57.9 | more to it than merely attending a church. So I asked my father about that, |
| 2:03.7 | and he was, of course, as a lot of children do, I waited until he was up on a ladder with |
| 2:10.4 | nails in his mouth and a hammer in his hand and a pile of curtain fabric over his shoulder |
| 2:17.0 | trying to hang curtains. That was the moment. I said, |
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