Finding Your New Normal in Relating to Your Adult Children (Part 2 of 2)
4/30/202627 min
Dr. Kathy Koch wants to help parents adjust to a “new normal” when their children become adults. The relationship has changed, and parents of adult kids need to change their expectations, listen more and advise less, break free from codependency, and give these new adults space and freedom to become the people God made them to be.
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Kathy Koch· Guest0:30
[upbeat music] If the only mom they knew was the helicopter mom that hovers over the breakfast bar while they're doing their homework, and now they do wanna be independent, now they do wanna mature on their own, this is how life is supposed to happen, they don't think you can parent any differently. But you can if you choose to- Yeah ... back off, give them the space and the place where they discover why they are the... who they are, and actually find out that you did a good job as a mom.
John Fuller· Host0:55
Well, that's Dr. Kathy Cook describing how it's possible to have a respectful, healthy, loving relationship with your adult child. [laughs] Dr. Kathy is back with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller, and we're so glad you've joined us as well.
Jim Daly· Host1:09
And, you know, we're talking to so many of you. When I travel, I'm meeting so many parents of adult children now, the 25-year-old, 30-year-old. And it, it's a whole bouquet- [laughs] ... of what's happening out there, and a lot of frustration and a lot of... Good things are happening, too, not to paint it all in a bad picture.