Episode 117-Doing Life with Your Adult Children with Jim Burns

Once your kids have officially “flown the nest”, or even if they are still living at home as young adults, your relationship with them has to change - especially if you want to keep a relationship with them! Listen in on today’s “Just Jim” episode where he breaks down his book, Doing Life with your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out, for some truly sage advice on transitioning your former day-to-day parenting role to one of mentoring and friendship with your adult children. SNEAK PEEK at the Principles covered in today’s episode:Principle #1: You’re fired as the day-to-day parentPrinciple #2: Unsolicited advice is usually taken as criticismPrinciple #3: Become students of their culturePrinciple #4: They will never know how far the town is if you carry them on your backPrinciple #5: Move them from dependence on you to independence from youPrinciple #6: You can’t want it more than they want itLinksHomeWord Website: https://homeword.com/HomeWord Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdVFclUo850Jim Burns Blog: https://homeword.com/jims-blog/Doing Life with Your Adult Children Online Course: https://homeword.com/dlwac-course/Books:Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out: https://homeword.com/product/dlwac-book/Send us Fan Mail