Jim Burns Books
Jim Burns is an American author, speaker, and the president of HomeWord, an organization dedicated to strengthening families and equipping parents. He has written numerous books on parenting, marriage, and faith, and is known for his engaging and encouraging approach to family life education.
Known for: Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
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Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
In this practical and compassionate guide, Jim Burns offers wisdom for parents navigating the complex transition from raising children to relating to them as adults. Drawing on decades of counseling experience, he provides strategies for setting healthy boundaries, maintaining connection, and offering support without control. The book helps parents redefine their roles, communicate effectively, and foster mutual respect as their children build independent lives.
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Letting Go of Control: From Authority to Influence
Letting go is the first and hardest task of every parent with grown children. During childhood and adolescence, you lead, guide, and make decisions—for their protection, their education, their well-being. But when that same young person reaches adulthood, your old methods no longer fit. What once wa...
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Keeping Communication Open: Listening More, Advising Less
If there’s one principle that defines harmonious relationships with adult children, it’s this: successful communication begins with listening. So many of our conflicts arise because we feel compelled to fix or instruct when, in truth, our children only need to be heard. Once a child becomes an adult...
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About Jim Burns
Jim Burns is an American author, speaker, and the president of HomeWord, an organization dedicated to strengthening families and equipping parents. He has written numerous books on parenting, marriage, and faith, and is known for his engaging and encouraging approach to family life education.
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Jim Burns is an American author, speaker, and the president of HomeWord, an organization dedicated to strengthening families and equipping parents. He has written numerous books on parenting, marriage, and faith, and is known for his engaging and encouraging approach to family life education.
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