5 Questions Parents & Adult Kids Need to Ask Each Other
About this episode
This episode discusses five important questions that parents and adult children should ask each other to deepen their understanding and connection.
Healthy families keep getting to know each other. We tend to think we already know our family, but people change, and when we stop asking questions, we start assuming intentions instead. Jesus ran into this too: in John 14, he asks Philip, “Don’t you know me...even after I have been among you such a long time?” Even Paul kept pursuing "that I may know him" in Philippians 3, present tense, never finished. If our relationship with Jesus keeps evolving, so does every relationship we're in, and that includes the people at our own table. In this episode, we walk through five conversation starters, mostly for adult kids and their parents, though they work with siblings, friends, or your own teenager too. This is less about family trivia and more about what actually formed the people you love. 5 Questions to Ask: Who were you before you were my parent? What happened to you that shaped you more than I realized? What was it actually like to be you in our family? Is there anything between us that makes it harder to be close? Who are you becoming, and how can I love you well now? When someone's answer is hard to hear, we talk about the one response that changes everything. Don't defend or…
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