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Some of you are still trying to be a coach to your kids and they're in their 30s or their 40s.

You're still on the sidelines saying, don't do that.

You're still trying to call a huddle and get them to play the game your way.

No, you need to learn how to be a consultant,

and if you don't make that shift, it will create a problem in your relationship with your adult

kids.

Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Ann Wilson.

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifftay.com.

This is Family Life Today.

Welcome to Family Life Today. We've got a great day for you.

We sure do. We have a guest that maybe you remember or you've heard before. It is our friend Bob Lapine.

Yeah, and he was the host of Family Life for almost 30 years. And he was on the Love Like Committed Cruise with us and gave a talk on navigating

relationships with adult children. This was such a popular talk. Everybody was talking about it the

whole time. Yeah, so you don't want to miss it and you're going to love Bob. And, you know,

he's got that voice. It's sort of familiar. Some of you've heard it for decades, so here's Bob.

I'm guessing that if you're here, you probably have at least one child and you're no longer

paying their cell phone bill or their car insurance, right?

Yes.

How many of you are in that category? Raise your hand if you've got, okay, that's a great liberating thing. But here's the problem. Sometimes with that,

these kids start making choices on their own, and we don't like some of those choices, and it can

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