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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

When Your Adult Child Makes a Poor Choice

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

It's one of the hardest things to swallow - when your adult son or daughter makes a decision you strongly disagree with. Dr. Gary Chapman joins Jim Daly to encourage you to not blame yourself if your adult child has made a bad choice. Also, John and Danny will give you some encouragement if your adult son or daughter is struggling.

 

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0:00.0

Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours?

0:07.3

That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called

0:12.1

Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges

0:17.7

that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally.

0:22.8

So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts.

0:32.4

As parents, we long for our children to experience the best in life, but sometimes our kids make choices

0:39.2

that are just awful, and it leads to really hard times. If you or maybe a close friend or family

0:46.6

member is walking that journey, you've come to the right podcast and the right ministry. I'm John

0:52.1

Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads the focus on the

0:55.3

family parenting team. And we're going to turn now to focus on the family president, Jim Daly.

1:01.7

He sat down with Dr. Gary Chapman. And they had a great discussion about how to have an honest,

1:08.0

loving conversation if your adult child is making poor choices. Gary, welcome back to focus. Well, thank you. It's good to be back. It's always good to have you. You brighten the room. It's good. Seriously. I mean, you had been swinging away at these topics for how many years? 60 years? Oh, a long time. Yeah. No, but you came up with the love languages. I think that's the

1:29.1

number one selling book in Christian book sales, isn't it not? Well, they sold over 20 million,

1:35.0

I don't know. Okay. That's a lot of books, either way. But what a great concept. And, you know,

1:40.1

again, that's something that we've covered. And if people want more information about

1:44.9

the love languages, they can get that. But it's just such a brilliant insight into the way

1:50.2

we want or need to be loved based on our temperament and how God has made us. So that's just

1:56.8

a home run. That's more like a grand slam, the idea that God gave you for that. But as we

2:02.6

move into more serious topics here, parenting adult kids, one of the things that I want to

2:08.2

mention right out of the gate is how much guilt we can carry as parents for the outcomes. And

2:14.4

I, you know, we own so much of that. And part of it is you've got to let go of that

2:19.8

so that your relationship remains healthy, right? And I could, let me add this to it and speak to

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