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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Stop the Bad Stuff

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

How do you trust God when a child has gone completely off the rails? Danny and John discuss drawing healthy boundaries with a young adult child, and when it's good to tell your son or daughter, "no." Featuring Allison Bottke.


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0:00.0

How do you trust God when your adult child is struggling? I'm John Fuller with Dr.

0:08.6

Danny Huerta who heads up our parenting department and we're going to answer that question at least to some

0:13.3

degree today. Let's hear now from Allison Botkey. She was with us last time

0:18.5

speaking with Jim Daly about an acronym she created called Sanity, which is all about having healthy boundaries

0:25.0

with your adult kids.

0:27.0

And today they kind of unpack that

0:29.0

and talk about the S in sanity.

0:32.0

Starting back with S for Stop N. Yes, insanity.

0:33.0

Starting back with S for stop negative behavior, give examples of what parents are doing

0:37.8

wrong to enable their adult children.

0:41.1

Stop the flow of money is a big one for things that have to stop it's very individual for all of us. We're not all making these you know the like mistakes

0:49.6

But typically the big ones are stop the flow of money, stop making excuses, stop coming to the rescue,

0:57.0

you know, stop being a landing pad for your child, you know, stop your own issues, stop your own

1:05.0

fear, fear. If you can stop your own fear, if you can stop fear,

1:08.5

if you can stop, stop being a prisoner to fear and guilt.

1:14.7

And that's that there's a lot of stops.

1:16.4

I had pages of stops, Jim.

1:18.3

No, that's good.

1:19.9

Edna was a woman that was working three jobs and what was she doing with all that energy

1:27.1

and the money she was making from three jobs?

1:29.6

Why was she working three jobs?

1:30.9

She was covering the car payment for her daughter who had this very fancy SUV.

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