Search

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Loving Your Adult Child

Loving Your Adult Child

Best-selling author Gary Chapman offers parents advice for maintaining a loving relationship with their adult child despite disagreeing with their choices and for communicating household rules and expectations if the adult child lives at home.
Original Air Date: April 2, 2013

Get Today's Featured Resource

Today's Guests

Recent Episodes

Focus on the Family Broadcast logo

Seeing the Funny Side of Life

As a full-time comedian, Kenn Kington works hard to see the funny side of life. Whether he’s traveling by plane or by car, situations arise that can produce frustration or laughter, and Kenn tries to choose joy whenever possible.

Focus on the Family Broadcast logo

Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood (Part 2 of 2)

Dr. Ken Wilgus encourages parents to deliberately work their way out of the parenting role by the time their child is 18, and instructs them to see their teenagers as young adults, not large children. He offers tips on how to progressively give your teen more responsibility, along with examples of how to have difficult conversations on a range of topics, from music choices to dating. (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family Broadcast logo

Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood (Part 1 of 2)

Dr. Ken Wilgus encourages parents to deliberately work their way out of the parenting role by the time their child is 18, and instructs them to see their teenagers as young adults, not large children. He offers tips on how to progressively give your teen more responsibility, along with examples of how to have difficult conversations on a range of topics, from music choices to dating.

You May Also Like

Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast logo

The Journey Back to My True Identity (Part 1 of 2)

Offering hope to those struggling with their sexual identity, Walt Heyer and Kathy Grace Duncan discuss their transgender journeys, during which they lived a period of their lives as the opposite gender until God’s restorative power enabled them to transition back to their biological sex. (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family Broadcast logo

Retaining Your Identity in Motherhood (Part 1 of 2)

Alli Worthington, offers help and hope to you as a mom, encouraging you to focus on the majors and to enjoy your children in the stages they are in. She covers things like mom guilt, anger, feeling inadequate, and keeping the spark in your marriage. It’s an uplifting look at motherhood! (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family Broadcast logo

Using Your Unique Personality to Share Your Faith (Part 2 of 2)

If you’re a Christian who struggles with feelings of inadequacy when it comes to evangelism or guilt for not doing more to share your faith, listen in as Dr. Mike Bechtle offers encouragement, explaining why there’s no prescribed method that’s ‘best,’ and that God can use your unique personality to accomplish the same goal. (Part 2 of 2)