Ep.509: A Checklist for Parenting Young Adults PART 1 with Krista Gilbert and Alex Kuykendall

Parenting young adults can feel like walking a tightrope. You’re not fully in charge anymore, but your influence still matters deeply. So how do you walk alongside them well?

Helpful, but not controlling? Wise, but still letting them make their own decisions? Loving, but with healthy boundaries?

In this first episode of a two-part series, we dive into the art of parenting post-childhood:

✅ Building their confidence without overstepping
✅ Practicing healthy emotional detachment
✅ Equipping them with the practical life skills they actually need
✅ Offering the kind of timeless advice that sticks

Whether you’re guiding a high school senior, a college student, or a 20-something finding their way, this conversation will both ground and encourage you.

A FEW THINGS MENTIONED

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Tyler Lafferty Episode-PART 2:  Helping Your Young Adult Find Their Career Path with Tyler Lafferty

Mama Bear Legal Forms

Donald Miller Great advice- Instagram Reel

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU RISE

1. In what way can you practice healthy attachment with your young adult?
2. As an exercise make a list of "You Are" statements that are true of your young adult that you can offer them or with the young person in your life, help them make a list of "I Am" statements that they can use when they need to fall back on remembering what is true of them no matter what.
3. What practical coaching can you give around one of the practical life skills that we discussed earlier?
4. Where do you need to offer yourself grace, maybe for a past response or maybe a place where you can grow into a new way of responding?

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