Supportive Friends for When a Child is Struggling
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
If your adult child is struggling, one of the greatest blessings is having a supportive friend to walk with you. John and Danny share about the value of friends, plus healthy ways to talk about the pain you're experiencing. Featuring Allison Bottke.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the hardest most lonely experiences you'll have as a parent is if your adult child |
| 0:07.0 | has rejected you or walked away from the faith or you have some other |
| 0:14.4 | relational rift. Having a supportive friend right then is so |
| 0:19.8 | important it makes the biggest difference. I'm thinking of a friend of mine who called and told me about a child and some |
| 0:28.2 | consequences of some choices that were catching up with that daughter and it was awful and it was a privilege to be |
| 0:34.7 | able to be there for him and to listen and we're going to be talking about the importance of |
| 0:39.1 | supportive friends today on the podcast. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Dr Danny Werta who heads up our |
| 0:44.8 | focus on the family parenting team. And it is really important, Danny, for us to go through |
| 0:52.0 | storms as a parent with somebody else in our corner, isn't it? |
| 0:56.6 | It is important, John, for us to have parents and friends and other people in our circle go through difficult times with us. |
| 1:05.0 | Many times we're just not open with one another and I know for me I can call |
| 1:09.7 | some mentors, friends at any moment, and they've really given me a lot of encouragement |
| 1:16.2 | and wisdom along the way. |
| 1:17.6 | They've been a true gift and at times very energizing in moments where I needed that. |
| 1:23.0 | As I went back to the reality of a challenge |
| 1:25.9 | or something I was worried about, |
| 1:28.2 | that is fantastic to lean into. |
| 1:30.4 | Don't be afraid to do that. |
| 1:31.4 | You're not supposed to be perfect. This is an |
| 1:34.2 | opportunity for you to be energized and surrounded by people that care |
| 1:37.4 | deeply about you. You just need to bring it up. Well Allison Botkey is open, very open about her own journey when her son struggled with a drug addiction. |
| 1:47.0 | And she created an acronym called Sanity to help struggling parents through such times on a previous conversation with Jim Daly |
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