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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Loving Your Adult Child

Loving Your Adult Child

Best-selling author Gary Chapman offers parents advice for maintaining a loving relationship with their adult child despite disagreeing with their choices and for communicating household rules and expectations if the adult child lives at home.
Original Air Date: April 2, 2013

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Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood (Part 1 of 2)

Dr. Ken Wilgus encourages parents to deliberately work their way out of the parenting role by the time their child is 18, and instructs them to see their teenagers as young adults, not large children. He offers tips on how to progressively give your teen more responsibility, along with examples of how to have difficult conversations on a range of topics, from music choices to dating.

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