Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they’ve left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition.

If you’ve raised a child, you know that parenting doesn’t stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated–your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.

Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he’s received over the years, including:

• My child’s choices are breaking my heart–where did I go wrong?
• Is it OK to give advice to my grown child?
• What’s the difference between enabling and helping?
• What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home?
• What do I do when my child doesn’t seem to be maturing into adulthood?
• How do I relate to my grown child’s significant other?
• What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries?
• How can I support my grown children when I don’t support their values?

Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

When the kids are gone, you can discover a richer, deeper, and more fulfilling life than you ever imagined!

Whether you’ve been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations, and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what? As an empty nester, the options before you are practically limitless–a fact that can be as exciting as it is terrifying.

In this book, Jim Burns combines his personal experiences with extensive research, interviews with other empty nesters, and his professional work as a family educator to help you navigate your new life as an empty nester and find joy in the opportunities for life-change before you.

Rather than offering shallow suggestions of hobbies you should take up, Burns encourages you to actively pursue a fresh start, reinvent yourself, and thrive beyond this new stage. To help you do this, he equips you with practical advice and timeless principles, including how to:

• Change the relationship you once had with your children–for the better
• Face big issues (like aging parents, finances, and kids returning home) with confidence
• And rekindle your fire and purpose to live with passion day by day

Amid his wealth of know-how, you’ll uncover what may be the most important takeaway of all: hope that the best is yet to come.

Exercises and discussion questions are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

After hearing the words no one wants to hear–“you have cancer”–Jim Burns set out to articulate the most important principles for a life well lived and now shares them with you as a collection of essential truths for a healthy, balanced, and successful life.¬†

What’s truly important for leading a life well lived? After being diagnosed with cancer and facing his mortality, prolific author and family-life expert Jim Burns learned what it really means to live a meaningful life from the perspective and practical wisdom only gained from facing death. Now cancer free, those same life-changing lessons continue to guide and enrich Jim’s faith, work, and relationships in immeasurable ways. With his conversational style and heartwarming and entertaining stories, Jim brilliantly distills that hard-earned wisdom into 13 simple yet powerful life principles you can put into practice today.¬†

Jim will help you learn how to:

• Break the cycle of being overcommitted and underconnected once and for all
• Make family the priority you want it to be with an action plan that will nurture your closest relationships
• Embrace the discomfort of discipline and avoid the pain of regret
• Incorporate the vital element of fun in your life for connection and relief in even the toughest times
• Train your mind in reflexive gratitude to rise above negative circumstances.¬†

Don’t wait any longer. Let these principles guide you into deeper joy, more purpose, and better connection–and start truly living today.

Accompanying graphics, appendix, and discussion questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.