The parenting series continues with a candid conversation about letting your kids go and giving them permission to stand on their own.
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Show Notes for Episode 130: Letting Your Kids Grow & Go
Christy Mobley talks about your role shifting with your adult children and how to let them grow and go without interfering.
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Today’s Guest: Christy Mobley is an award winning devotional writer and a gifted communicator who finds great joy in encouraging women of all ages to deepen their walk with Jesus Christ. Her greatest fulfillment in life comes from the blessing of family — being a wife, mom, mother-in-law and grandmother to three rug-rats. In her spare time if she’s not chasing one her grandchildren you can find her on a tennis court chasing a fuzzy yellow ball.
You can connect with Christy on Facebook or on her website.
Things We Talk About:
- Tough love
- Giving your kids permission to let you go
- Open Letter to My Boys
- Luke 2:41-52
- Genesis 2:24
- Jochebed, Moses’ mother
- Deuteronomy 6:7
- Matthew 22:37
- Advice to mother-in-laws
- Advice to daughter-in-laws
- Martha and Mary Show Sisterhood Group
Jochebed did in 3-5 years what moms sometimes find hard to do in 18-20 years. -Christy Mobley #marthamaryshow #moses #momlife #mops #Scripture
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Some takeaways from this conversation:
- Are you letting your kids discover who Jesus is to them?
- Does your job have an expiration date?
- Your kids are more capable than you or they realize.
- When you interfere with the union in any way you are standing in the way of them obeying God’s command in Genesis 2:24.
- It takes time and experience to grow trust.
- Are you giving your son-in-law or daughter-in-law space and grace?
Connect with Us:
- The Martha + Mary Show webpage
- Podcast Group on Facebook: Martha and Mary Show Sisterhood
- IG Handles: @leenienhuis @katie_m_reid @christy_mobley
- Producer: Jeanna Lesausky
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Your kids are more capable than you or they realize. -Christy Mobley #marthamaryshow #momlife #adulting
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