Are your parenting responsibilities continuing into your children’s adulthood? Here you’ll be grounded in the guidance of God’s Word and reminded that your relationship with your adult children hinges on your relationship with God. Fitzpatrick and Jim Newheiser have joined forces to address an issue that continues to escalate inside and outside of the church and is quickly becoming one of the most prevalent conflicts in our culture today. This question of how parents should relate to their adult children who too often have an entitlement mindset, while at the same time refusing to take the hard and sacrificial steps to become an independently functioning adult, has become a minefield of potential conflict. So how do you cut the apron strings? What does love demand? What does God expect? And how can parents sort through the turmoil of knowing when, where, how much, and how long to help? The authors wisely and humbly guide us through some of the biggest struggles, basing their answers on biblical principles, as well as personal experience gained from their own lives and the hours they’ve spent counseling others. This book doesn’t give pat, easy answers, but it does offer hope and practical steps for how to please God that are buoyed with grace and humility. As a parent of five children who are now making their own transition into adulthood I was convicted, encouraged, and strengthened to do better. I’ll be turning to this book again and again, and passing it on to others who are looking for godly counsel as they walk through what can be a confusing season of how to relate to young adults who are no longer children, but will always be your child. -- Brad Bigney, Grace fellowship Church, Florence, KY I never speak on the topic of raising children without facing the inevitable questions about how to respond to adult children who are struggling with the transition between being a child and an adult. You Never Stop Being A Parent, answers the most frequently asked questions with biblical clarity, wisdom and insight. This book will help parent to think with clarity about the many issues responding to adult children raises. The answers it gives are not only clear and doable, but richly gospel centered and filled with hope. This is a book I will buy in bulk and recommend to many. -- Tedd Tripp, pastor, author, conference speaker “Fitzpatrick and Newheiser have given the church a crucial gift, a book full of practical wisdom for parenting our adult children. The need for this book is great. I can’t wait to stock it in our church bookstore.” -- William P. Farley Perfect timing. Just as the questions from parents with adult children start streaming in, we have solid, biblical material to put in their hands. And the book is packed. No sooner did I think, "but what about ____" and the next illustration set me off on a wise course. Thank you. -- Ed Welch "Wise, compassionate, much-needed counsel for parents of adult (or nearly adult) children. Jim and Elyse clearly present the responsibilities of life-long biblical parenting solidly within the context of God's absolute sovereignty. I'm not aware of another book like it on the market today and highly recommend it to all who truly desire to rightly influence their children all the days of their lives." -- Carol J. Ruvolo Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jim Newheiser have written a very practical book based on biblical principles to help parents of adult children. The style is engaging and the advice very wise. I wish that I had had this book years ago before our oldest child got married! Martha Peace, Biblical Counselor and Author of The Excellent Wife -- Martha Peace, Biblical Counselor and author of The Excellent Wife and Damsels in Distress Jim Newheiser and Elyse Fitzpatrick have given the body of Christ an excellent treasure in You Never Stop Being a Parent. There is no other Christian book quite like it. With a solid biblical background guiding the principles they share; with practical wisdom from many years of their own in-home and now out-of-home parenting; and with direct but sensitive admonishment for those parents who are struggling to build lasting, godly relationships with their adult children, these two parent counselors have provided us with a great deal of valuable assistance. I for one should know: my wife Beth and I have been blessed with eight children, seven of them now teenagers or above. The two oldest Quinn kids are now adult children who are currently living away from our home, which means there are also six who will soon follow. This book therefore couldn’t come at a better time for us! I can now glean the wisdom from this book for use with both our older adult children, as well as better prepare for the others who will one day join them in creating our empty nest. My many thanks to Jim and Elyse in counseling us with what lies dead ahead. So whether as parents of older adult children you are either frustrated or fulfilled, may this helpful volume bring