“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” (Mary Karr)

One last bit of writing on point #9 in my Top 10 List for Parenting Adult Children … Be Honest. Be honest with your adult children about failures, struggles, mistakes and confusion from your own life journey. It helps them to not feel so alone or lost as they navigate the rough waters of young […]

Still making my way through this teaching's Top 10 List - Friends and Family: When We're All Grown Up #9 on my list is Be Honest. One of the topics my adult daughter is happy we have been honest about is our gene pool. What weirdnesses might she have inherited? On a light note, she […]

Working my way through my Top 10 List for parenting young adults … #9 is Be Honest, meaning parents of young adults can be really helpful to our kids by being appropriately honest with them about our own struggles, confusion, bad choices and mistakes as we navigated the turbulent waters of young adulthood ourselves. There […]

I am working my way through the Top 10 List I created for a sermon I gave on parenting adult kids. Last week, I spent a few days working through point #10 which was "Make The Transition," and now I am going to ponder #9 for a bit, which is "Be Honest." By "Be honest" […]

I think it was Teresa of Avila who said: "Comparison is the death of the spiritual life." Regardless of who first spoke these words, they are both brilliant and painfully true. Especially when it comes to making the transition from parenting teenagers to parenting adults. Each person makes that transition in their own way and […]