Practical and Filled With Insights

Parenting is a lifetime responsibility—even when your children become adults. Yet when they get into trouble, how do you respond? Do you enable or get manipulated? Allison Bottke is intimately familiar with these stories—from her own personal experience and also from a connection to thousands of other parents.

As Bottke writes in the early pages, “If we want to learn how to connect with our troubled adult children, we must let go of our old dreams for them and our unreasonable expectations We can’t go back and re-parent all over again, hoping for a different outcome. Instead, we must find a way to push through the pain and expectations as we formulate an honest appraisal of both who our adult children are today and of their ability to live independently in the future. Most important, we need to understand what role God is calling us to have in their troubled lives.” (Page 12)

HOW TO CONNECT WITH YOUR TROUBLED ADULT CHILDREN is packed with relevant information for every parents of a troubled adult child. Each chapter ends with a detailed practical “effective strategy.” This book is an excellent resource for patents but also for counselors and pastors and as a practical resource friends can buy for parents with a troubled adult child. I highly recommend this book.