Four Pillars of Raising Healthy Relational Adult Children with Kathy Koch

About this episode

Jennifer Pepito and Dr Kathy Koch discuss the four pillars of raising healthy adult children and the importance of maintaining relationships through parenting challenges.

Jennifer Pepito is joined by Dr Kathy Koch to talk about raising healthy adult children and staying in relationship with them through trial-and-error parenting, making mistakes, and the four pillars to raise healthy children and the importance of choosing relationship whenever possible. As any parent with more than one teenager knows, parenting — what you know and what you think you know — shifts dramatically as children come of age. So often parents either react to older children without flexibility, humility or grace and wonder why the formulas of the early years aren't working or they simply give up on parenting. Dr. Koch lays out the ways we can choose connection, learn with our children, and continue to gently shepherd them through their teenage years. Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press! Starting to plan for next year's schooling and looking for tips on how to homeschool?? Check out the Peaceful Press's free How to Start Homeschooling Booklet. In this episode– Prayer, community, humility, and honesty The importance of apologizing to your children The key to parenting adult children is having your identity right: first you in Christ, then you as a spouse, and finally you…

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Pepito

Guest: Dr Kathy Koch

Topics covered

• parenting
• adult children
• relationships
• humility
• conflict resolution

Keywords

• parenting
• adult children
• relationships
• humility
• conflict resolution
• teenagers
• homeschooling

Sponsors

Peaceful Press

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