When Your Child Moves Away
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Seeing your child leave home is one of the biggest and sometimes hardest transitions you'll make as a parent. John and Danny willl provide some tips for making that transition well.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.7 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | I think one of the bigger transitions I've had to make as a parent was when my kids |
| 0:15.8 | started moving out of the house and instead of seeing them on a regular basis I saw |
| 0:20.1 | them like every year for a while. |
| 0:22.9 | It's more often now, but I miss those things, |
| 0:26.6 | those simple things of interacting with them |
| 0:30.0 | on a regular basis. |
| 0:31.7 | Now it's sort of like I have a call and find out if they have time to get together. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm not complaining. |
| 0:36.2 | I love having my kids nearby, but it's different after raising them to be kind of separated from them. Maybe you're getting ready to do |
| 0:45.8 | something like that to send the kids off. Well we've got Dr. Danny Werta here to |
| 0:51.0 | help out. He's the Vice president of parenting and youth here and |
| 0:54.6 | focus on the family and Danny I'm sure that in your counseling and just in |
| 0:59.7 | life you've encountered lots of parents who are saying but I don't want my child to leave home |
| 1:05.1 | There are lots of reasons for that I mean it were invested what do you what do you say to the |
| 1:10.3 | We are it is it is a very hard transition many parents. I call it the post-parent depression. |
| 1:15.2 | It's a post-partum. Right? I like that. It's really called Empty Nest Syndrome officially. |
| 1:22.0 | And it is, it is a hard transition for parents to know what to |
| 1:29.6 | really what to be thinking about at that time what What is my purpose, what anxieties are coming up. So yeah, it is very frequent, actually my practice, that that comes up, especially with the first child. |
| 1:39.7 | Yeah, and the truth is, the raising your child in the home thing is short compared to relating to my child as an adult. |
| 1:49.0 | So we want to make sure we get them to that point and we launched them well. |
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