Stop Trying To Parent Your Adult Children
May 22, 2026Every time I’m around when a Christian woman is asking for advice regarding her adult children, I hear the exact same recommendation. “Read Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut & the Welcome Mat Out. This book will change your life!” Finally, my curiosity got the best of me, and I checked out a copy from my local library. This book is so popular that it took me three months to get a copy, and there were over sixty people after me on a waiting list hoping to get their hands on it, too. I walked away…
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