No matter where you are on the parenting spectrum, looking ahead to graduation can invoke anxiety and concern. Brad Griffin, Assistant Director of the Fuller Youth Institute, helps ease the tension with some thoughts on how to step into graduation with a plan over the next few weeks (or even the next few years.) He gives some practical insights on managing the stress, easing your kids into adulthood, and shifting your parental role.
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YOUR CUE
This week, schedule a time to sit down to do something you enjoy together and start a conversation about what the transition of graduation looks like. Don’t start with your list of expectations, but ask them to share their hopes for the future and the future of your relationship.
RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE
QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE
Trust in the investment you’ve made, but trust your kids more in this phase.
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After graduation, our role as a parent shifts from coach to consultant.
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Research suggests your relationship gets better with your young adult in the phase after graduation.
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BRAD GRIFFIN
Brad is the Director of the Fuller Youth Institute, where he develops research-based training for youth workers and parents. A speaker, blogger, and volunteer youth pastor, Brad is the coauthor of Growing Young, several Sticky Faith books Right Click: Parenting Your Teenager in a Digital Media World and the series Can I Ask That?: 8 Hard Questions about God and Faith. Brad and his family live in Southern California.
CARLOS WHITTAKER
Carlos is an author, speaker, and content creator living in Nashville, TN with his wife Heather and 3 kids Sohaila, Seanna, and Losiah. He is addicted to social media, his wife’s enchiladas, and is determined to have his daughters teach him to land a backflip on the trampoline by the time he is 45.
KRISTEN IVY
Kristen is the Executive Director of Messaging at Orange, Director of The Phase Project, and co-author of Playing For Keeps and It’s Just a Phase – So Don’t Miss It. She combines her degree in secondary education with a Master of Divinity and lives with her husband, Matt, and their three children, Sawyer, Hensley, and Raleigh, in Cumming, GA.
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