There are challenges and joys of raising adult children, and we can become defined by them if we aren’t careful.  Our role changes as our kids grow, and there are ways we can strengthen the relationship between us and our adult children.  Let’s talk about it today with guest Jill Savage!

Jill Savage  is an author and speaker who is passionate about encouraging families. She is the author of seven books including Professionalizing Motherhood, My Hearts At Home, Real Moms…Real Jesus, Living With Less So Your Family Has More, and her most recent bestselling release No More Perfect Moms.

Featured on Focus on the Family, Crosswalk.com, and as the host of the Heartbeat radio program, Jill is the founder and director of Hearts at Home, an organization that encourages moms. Jill and her husband, Mark, have five children, three who are married, two granddaughters and one grandson. They make their home in Normal, Illinois.

Hearts at Home

Mentioned in Podcast

Parenting Adult Children Article – “Finally, I’m beginning to see my children in a new way,” he said. “Both are married and have kids of their own. I’m amazed at what good, capable people they are. I realize in talking with others that I have not been as encouraging as I could be. I wonder if that’s why my daughter seems distant…”

Proverbs 25:11

Mark 10:27

Are you qualified to homeschool your children? We’re talking about the qualifications and who defines them today, and I think you’ll be encouraged by the answer!

Mentioned in Podcast

A Call for National Civil Disobedience to Obama’s Public School Transgender Bathroom Mandate

HSLDA – “Homeschooling: Getting Started”

Am I Really Qualified to Homeschool My Kids?  by Carol Barnier

National Home Education Research Institute NHERI

Schedule a Moment to Wonder by Steve Lambert

Firmly Planted Homeschool Coop Leader’s Manual

Resources

Homeschooling Held Hostage -We’ve gone from a few brave moms who, without access to mainstream “curriculum”, managed to give their children an excellent education—but we’ve forgotten what made it excellent.

Big What Now Book of Learning Styles: A Demystifying Approach – All children want to learn, but so often we give students a key to unlock their understanding of a new concept only to discover that it was the wrong key. The question then becomes, WHAT NOW? Carol Barnier delivers a fresh and demystifying approach to learning styles. You’ll find answers and so much more.

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Homeschooling – Homeschooling is the best decision we have ever made with regard to how we would educate our children. But I won’t lie to you—those first few years were especially challenging. If I could start again, I would do a few things differently.

Exposing the Truth about A Homeschooling “Wonder Woman” – Here’s the thing: there’s isn’t an “easier” way. This life is hard—and nothing that’s worth doing in this life is gonna be easy. Including homeschooling. And that’s okay.

Homeschool 101: Choosing Curriculum the Simple Way –  If you have homeschooled for more than five minutes or done one even internet search in your consideration of homeschooling, you know there is a very long list of curricula out there for you to try. Regardless of what curricula we land on, it is very easy to let it become the main thing and we lean into IT instead of into the Lord. No curriculum can be a substitute for The Lord’s leadership in your homeschool.

So before you spend hundreds of dollars thinking you have found the miracle curriculum that will make homeschooling simple, remember, moms…

The Way They Learn – Draw out the best in your children―by understanding the way they learn. If you’re frustrated that your child isn’t learning the way you did, chances are they are too! In this practical resource, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias explains that understanding how you both learn can make all the difference.  Using expertise in education and learning styles, Tobias offers practical guidance for teaching to your child’s strengths―both at home and in school―even when his or her learning style is very different from your own.

The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling – The best homeschool resource is now bigger and better than ever! Updated and expanded for a new generation of Christian parents, this indispensable resource belongs on the shelf of every homeschooling family. In addition to more than 500 pages of parent-tested ideas, solutions, homeschool suppliers, and curriculum recommendations, you will find:
* Six ingredients of a successful homeschool
* Keys to unlocking your child’s learning potential
* Ten ways to motivate the reluctant learner
* Creative solutions for burnout, budgeting, and managing your time

The only way to succeed in this life at the end of the day is to walk humbly with God and ask Him for truth and wisdom. You are a redeemed child of God and can discern counterfeit Christianity when you see it. Dig in and ask God for wisdom!

Scriptures

2 Timothy 4:2-3

Proverbs 29:18

Isaiah 43:1-3

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Dear USA Presbyterian Church: Read Your Bible – Our lack of Biblical knowledge has made us impotent in the spiritual battle we are facing. We want the love of God, but not the sacrifice it takes to walk rightly with Him, and the USA Presbyterian Church is a perfect example of this. It’s time to get back to reading—and living out—the Word of God.

The Paradox of Truth and Grace – Christians have a responsibility to speak the truth written in the Word of God. While many of us naturally lean toward boldly speaking the truth and others of us naturally lean toward being more gentle in our speech, the challenge we all have is to be sure we boldly speak this truth in a manner full of grace in order that we might be heard.

Resources

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New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp

Mornings can be tough. Sometimes, a hearty breakfast and strong cup of coffee just aren’t enough. Offering more than a rush of caffeine, best-selling author Paul David Tripp wants to energize you with the most potent encouragement imaginable: the gospel.

Forget “behavior modification” or feel-good aphorisms. Tripp knows that what we really need is an encounter with the living God. Then we’ll be prepared to trust in God’s goodness, rely on his grace, and live for his glory each and every day.

Only God Can Make a Kitten by Rhonda Greene

Only God Can Make A Kitten, written by award-winning author Rhonda Gowler Greene and illustrated by bestselling artist Laura J. Bryant, follows a conversation between a mother and child as the child repeatedly asks “Mama, who made . . . ?” In the end, children learn that God is responsible for everything in creation—including kittens!

Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live. by David Platt and Francis Chan

In this new book, David Platt, author of the New York Times bestselling book, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, contends that multitudes of people around the world culturally think they are Christians yet biblically are not followers of Christ.

Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World by Craig Groeschel

As standards of conduct continue to erode in our shock-proof world, we must fight the soul pollution threatening our health, our faith, and our witness to others. Without even knowing it, people willingly inhale second-hand toxins poisoning their relationship with God and stunting their spiritual growth.

Soul Detox examines the toxins that assault us daily including: toxic influences, toxic emotions, and toxic behaviors.

By examining the toxins that assault us daily, this book offers the ultimate spiritual intervention with ways to remain clean, pure, and focused on the standard of God’s holiness.

The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn’t Exist   Craig Groeschel

“The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.” Former Christian Atheist Craig Groeschel knows his subject all too well. After over a decade of successful ministry, he had to make a painful self admission: although he believed in God, he was leading his church like God didn’t exist. To Christians and non-Christians alike, to the churched and the unchurched, the journey leading up to Groeschel’s admission and the journey that follows—from his family and his upbringing to the lackluster and even diametrically opposed expressions of faith he encountered—will look and sound like the story of their own lives.