If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.
In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, parenting expert Jim Burns helps you navigate the toughest and the most rewarding parts of parenting your grown kids. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these:
<ul>
<li>Is it OK to give advice to my grown child?</li>
<li>What's the difference between enabling and helping?</li>
<li>What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home?</li>
<li>What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood?</li>
<li>How do I relate to my grown child's significant other?</li>
<li>What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries?</li>
<li>How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values?</li>
</ul>
Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out

Parenting & Relationships

Burns Ph.D, Jim

Family Relationships

Zondervan

After hearing the words no one wants to hear--"you have cancer"--Jim Burns set out to articulate the most important principles for a life well lived and now shares them with you as a collection of essential truths for a healthy, balanced, and successful life.&nbsp; What's truly important for leading a life well lived After being diagnosed with cancer and fighting for his life, prolific author and family-life expert Jim Burns learned what it really means to live a meaningful life from the perspective and practical wisdom only gained from facing death. Now cancer free, those same life-changing lessons continue to guide and enrich Burns's faith, work, and relationships in immeasurable ways. With his conversational style and heartwarming and entertaining stories, Burns brilliantly distills that hard-earned wisdom into 13 simple yet powerful life principles you can put into practice today.&nbsp; Burns will help you learn how to: <ul> <li>Break the cycle of being overcommitted and under connected once and for all</li> <li>Make family the priority you want it to be with an action plan that will nurture your closest relationships</li> <li>Embrace the discomfort of discipline and avoid the pain of regret</li> <li>Incorporate the vital element of fun in your life for connection and relief in even the toughest times</li> <li>Train your mind in reflexive gratitude to rise above negative circumstances.&nbsp;</li> </ul> Don't wait any longer. Let these principles guide you into deeper joy, more purpose, and better connection--and start truly living today.

Have Serious Fun: And 12 Other Principles to Make Each Day Count

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

When the kids are gone, you can discover a richer, deeper, and more fulfilling life than you ever imagined! 
Whether you've been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations, and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what? As an empty nester, the options before you are practically limitless--a fact that can be as exciting as it is terrifying. 
In this book, Jim Burns combines his personal experiences with extensive research, interviews with other empty nesters, and his professional work as a family educator to help you navigate your new life as an empty nester and find joy in the opportunities for life-change before you. 
Rather than offering shallow suggestions of hobbies you should take up, Burns encourages you to actively pursue a fresh start, reinvent yourself, and thrive beyond this new stage. To help you do this, he equips you with practical advice and timeless principles, including how to: Change the relationship you once had with your children--for the better Face big issues (like aging parents, finances, and kids returning home) with confidence And rekindle your fire and purpose to live with passion day by day 
Amid his wealth of know-how, you'll uncover what may be the most important takeaway of all: hope that the best is yet to come.

Finding Joy in the Empty Nest: Discover Purpose and Passion in the Next Phase of Life

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

En algún punto de nuestra ocupada vida, muchos hemos olvidado, o incluso no hemos aprendido, los fundamentos de la buena crianza de los hijos, y ellos están sufriendo por esta causa. Tenemos buenas intenciones, pero las frustraciones diarias y los constantes conflictos pueden evidenciar que estamos mejor preparados para conducir un automóvil o dedicarnos a nuestra carrera que a criar hijos.Para evitar el método habitual de formar a los hijos a base de procedimientos empíricos, Jim Burns ofrece consejos y estrategias de eficacia comprobada para las familias de hoy día. Inspirado con su singular franqueza y espíritu práctico, cada capítulo explora un aspecto diferente del ser padres; desde romper cadenas generacionales de la disfunción hasta crear un ambiente cálido en el hogar, tratar cuestiones de disciplina y bendecir a nuestros hijos con un legado de fe. Los ejercicios útiles y las preguntas de seguimiento sobre la marcha consolidan las habilidades para ser padres y proveen un fundamento para desarrollar tu propio plan familiar.

Padres confiados: Cómo reabastecer vidas demasiado ocupadas - Cómo vencer los patrones familiares negativos - Cómo crear un hogar lleno de gracia - Cómo comunicar... (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Vida

Jim Burns, una autoridad respetada en lo que se refiere a la familia, bosqueja una guía sencilla y práctica para los padres sobre cómo desarrollar en sus hijos una perspectiva saludable con respecto a sus cuerpos y su sexualidad. Abarcando mucho más que solo cuándo y cómo tener «la charla», este invalorable recurso propicia el desarrollo de una «teología de la sexualidad saludable» mediante la introducción de un diálogo apropiado a la edad durante toda la vida del joven.

Educación sexual sana para tus hijos: Un método bíblico para prepararlos para la vida (Spanish Edition)

¡Las decisiones que tomamos en la adolescencia nos afectan por el resto de nuestra vida!Por esa razón este es un libro muy importante. En estas páginas dos héroes del ministerio con adolescentes (uno de habla inglesa y otro de habla hispana) te ayudaran a decidir lo mejor que puedes hacer con tu sexualidad.¡La verdadera santidad no es aburrida sino una garantía de éxito y por eso el plan de Dios es tan sensacional!Practicar el código de la pureza es disfrutar la vida plenamente, y responder si alguna vez te preguntaste algo como esto:• ¿Qué significan estos cambios en mi cuerpo y estos nuevos deseas?• ¿Cuál es la edad ideal para un noviazgo?• ¿Qué hacer si me han abusado sexualmente?• ¿Qué son y cómo evitar las enfermedades veneras?¡Este libro tiene que estar entre tus propiedades predilectas!

El código de la pureza: El plan de Dios para disfrutar tu sexualidad (Especialidades Juveniles) (Spanish Edition)

Self-Help

Leys, Lucas

Motivational

If you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact. In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, parenting expert Jim Burns helps you navigate the toughest and the most rewarding parts of parenting your grown kids. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these: <ul> <li>Is it OK to give advice to my grown child?</li> <li>What's the difference between enabling and helping?</li> <li>What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home?</li> <li>What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood?</li> <li>How do I relate to my grown child's significant other?</li> <li>What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries?</li> <li>How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values?</li> </ul> Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

Zondervan on Brilliance Audio

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Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out

Have Serious Fun: And 12 Other Principles to Make Each Day Count

Finding Joy in the Empty Nest: Discover Purpose and Passion in the Next Phase of Life

Padres confiados: Cómo reabastecer vidas demasiado ocupadas - Cómo vencer los patrones familiares negativos - Cómo crear un hogar lleno de gracia - Cómo comunicar... (Spanish Edition)

Educación sexual sana para tus hijos: Un método bíblico para prepararlos para la vida (Spanish Edition)

El código de la pureza: El plan de Dios para disfrutar tu sexualidad (Especialidades Juveniles) (Spanish Edition)

Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out