How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
We are used to having our parents help us, but how do we handle it when the tables are turned and our parents are the ones who need help? Declining health, financial needs, divorce, relational issues—what's an adult child's role when their parents are struggling? Or when there is conflict with them because of differing lifestyles and parenting philosophies?
Counselor Jim Newheiser understands the many types of challenges adults may face in their relationship with their parents, whether it be their parents' financial strain, a struggle to properly care for their home or their health, conflict related to care for the grandchildren, or destructive relational choices. He helps readers understand their responsibility to honor their parents, and to be prepared to help with their needs, but also to recognize their first responsibility to their relationship with the Lord and their own marriage and children. He also gives guidance on what offenses to graciously overlook and what offenses to handle with gentleness and love. Ultimately, there may be some bad situations that are out of your control, but you can always be a loving representative of the Lord in how you respond.
- Title: How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
- Author: Jim Newheiser
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 24
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Families › Religious aspects--Christianity; Conflict management › Religious aspects--Christianity; Parent and adult child › Religious aspects--Christianity; Aging parents › Care; Adult children of aging parents; Caregivers › Family relationships
- ISBNs: 9781645071808, 9781645071815, 1645071804, 1645071812
- Resource ID: LLS:HWLVDFFCLTPRNTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-07-29T19:50:59Z
Jim Newheiser (DMin) earned an MA and DMin from Westminster Theological Seminary. Jim serves as Director of the Christian Counseling Program at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, and as the executive Director of Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship since 2006. He is also an ACBC Fellow and board member and a NANC Fellow. He has been practicing biblical counseling for over thirty years. In addition, Jim served in pastoral ministry at Grace Bible Church in Escondido, California. Jim is a founding member and an executive board member of the Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals. He is an international retreat and conference speaker, author of Opening Up Proverbs and co-author of When Good Kids Make Bad Choices and You Never Stop Being a Parent.