Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
Allison Bottke
Harvest House Publishers - Release Date Feb.1
Retail Price: $11.99
Our Price: $9.59

This important and compassionate new book from the creator of the successful God Allows U-Turns series will help parents and grandparents of the many adult children who continue to make life painful for their loved ones.

Writing from firsthand experience, Allison identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son in bondage—and how she overcame them. Additional real life stories from other parents are woven through the text.

A tough–love book to help readers cope with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.—a six–step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives.

S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money
A = Assemble a Support Group
N = Nip Excuses in the Bud
I = Implement Rules/Boundaries
T = Trust Your Instincts
Y = Yield Everything to God

Foreword by Carol Kent (When I Lay My Isaac Down)

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I was given an advanced reader's copy of this book by Harvest House and asked to give my opinion on it before it came out. I've been pretty big on self-help books for most of my adult life as I've had my share of dysfunctional relationships, so I have a pretty good grasp on self-help principles that work and those that don't. My gut feeling on Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children is that this book is a winner.

Allison Bottke speaks from her heart and her own experience with enabling her adult son to stay in a destructive pattern of living and she gives excellent tips and tools for parents to stop the insanity of living a dysfunctional life. I like the fact that she doesn't blame the parent for the adult child's behavior and she gives advice on how the parent can change....not on how to change the adult child. This book is about putting responsibility for destructive behavior where it belongs and coming to the realization that if "nothing changes, nothing changes."

Another key element that this book has that many self-help books don't is that Bottke puts God right in the midst of our struggles and suggests that we yield to Him in everything. While most self-help book allude to a "higher power", this book comes straight out and tells the reader the truth: you can't make these changes without the help of the God of the Bible.

I highly recommend this book. It will change your life.


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Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents Allison Bottke Harvest House Publishers - Release Date Feb.1 Retail Price: $11.99 Our Price: $9.59

Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
Allison Bottke
Harvest House Publishers - Release Date Feb.1
Retail Price: $11.99
Our Price: $9.59