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Help your child keep a strong faith while in college

Help Your Young Adult Keep Their Faith Strong In College

College-bound kids and their faith have never been more threatened. As a parent, you can make sure they are already connected in community.

Family Estrangement: 6 Ways to Reconcile with Adult Children

You can move forward after a rift with your adult children by learning new ways to build trust and respect between you and your child.

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3 Ways to Effectively Parent Adult Children

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5

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When Adult Children Move Back Home

Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy your newly empty nest, your adult child decides to move back in. Here’s how parents and grown children can work together to make the experience a positive one.

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Parenting Adult Children Through Prayer

Spending time in intimate conversation with our Heavenly Father on behalf of our kids can take away the feeling of powerlessness that we sometimes battle. These times spent with God can renew our sense of hope, open our eyes to what God is doing now in our kids’ lives, and impact our interactions with our …

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Are You Saying the Wrong Things to Your Adult Kids?

Understanding the motives that complicate our communication with our adult kids is necessary for strengthening our relationship with our adult kids. Keep reading to learn how to you approach this age and stage for your adult kids.

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Helping an Adult Child Grow Up

One family made an intentional choice about how they would respond to their adult daughters wild and immature behavior.

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Don’t Let Your Expectations Push Away Your Adult Children

We no longer get to make the “right” decision for our adult children. But we can keep our expectations from planting seeds of bitterness that may eventually overflow into our relationship with them.

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The Art of Letting Go: Supporting Your Son’s Marriage

Releasing your son to be the man and husband God created him to be, is hard, but can be one of your greatest blessings.

When Adult Children Reject the Faith

When adult children reject the faith, questions arise from the emotions and doubt. Learn how to commit to loving your kids in this situation.

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How to Trust God With Your Adult Children

What do you do when your adult children don’t make the choices you wish they had?

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When Adult Children Don’t Share Your Values

We can’t change our adult children. But we can choose to keep communication open without compromising our convictions.

Providing Care for the Elderly

Providing Care for the Elderly

Watching a loved one enter the final chapters of their life can be a heavy experience, but it doesn’t have to be. Providing care for the elderly can be an opportunity to empower your loved ones while honoring and celebrating their life.  Senator John Hoeven said, “Caring for seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who …

Parenting Young adults

Parenting Young Adults: Grace and Forgiveness

Crucial decisions made during the post high school years may significantly impact a young adult’s future.

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Encouraging Spiritual Formation in Young Adults

Parenting isn’t easy, but it can be supremely rewarding when done according to God’s plan.

build a relationship with your adult child by supporting their parenting. Mother and adult son hugging

Lesson Learned: Support Your Child’s Parenting

Supporting your child’s parenting choices can be hard when you don’t agree. We have to remember there is more at stake.

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Nurturing Their Faith: Supporting Adult Children Who Are Questioning God

I have always loved praying for our kids, but now more than ever I treasure the time I can spend talking to God about how He is working in their adult lives.

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Redrawing Boundaries With Adult Children

How much control does, or should, a parent have over an adult child?

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Boomerang Kids: Sharing Your Home With An Adult Child

Navigating the return of adult children can be challenging. Nonetheless, it can also be a blessing for both generations if you start out right.

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Blessing Your Child’s Marriage

What if the engagement season presents a unique opportunity for parents to bless their child’s marriage?