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Parenting adult children is hard. That’s because most parents don’t pivot. Doing life with your adult children means keeping your mouth shut and the welcome mat out. It’s time for Mom and Dad to pivot from parent to partner. That’s what The Parent Pivot Podcast is all about.
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Influence Is Earned, Not Demanded: Interview with Catherine Hickem (opens the original)
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On today’s Parent Pivot Podcast, Steve and Julia sit down with author and parenting expert Catherine Hickem for a powerful conversation about one of the hardest transitions we make as parents: learning how to parent our adult children without trying to control them. Catherine says influence has to be earned—not demanded. We talk about expectations, estrangement, boundaries, identity, fear, and why repairing a relationship starts by looking in the mirror instead of blaming your son or daughter. A
When Helping Becomes Rescuing (opens the original)
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When your adult child is hurting, everything in you wants to step in. Fix it. Solve it. Make the pain go away. But what if the most loving thing you can do is… not rescue them? On this episode of The Parent Pivot Podcast, Steve and Julia get very real about what we’ve been walking through with our own adult kids—and the emotional tightrope of knowing when to step in and when to step back. How do you support them without taking over? How do you listen without fixing? And how do you trust that the
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - The Gold Standard (opens the original)
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Every family has a “gold standard”—a picture of how life should go, how our children should respond, and what the right choices should look like. But what happens when our adult children choose differently? In this Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast, Steve and Julia talk about the difference between holding healthy values—and holding our children to our expectations. The goal isn’t to lower the standard. It’s to stop using that standard as a measuring stick that damages the relationship. Sometimes
The Buck Stops Here: Breaking Generational Cycles With Your Adult Kids (opens the original)
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You probably inherited more from your parents than your eye color, your laugh, or your last name. Some of us inherited patterns. Control.Criticism.Shame.Fear.Ways of relating that we swore we'd never repeat. And then one day, we hear ourselves doing the very thing our parents did. In this episode of The Parent Pivot Podcast, Steve and Julia talk about intergenerational trauma, the wounds we carry from childhood, and how those wounds can quietly shape the way we relate to our adult kids. But here
"The Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Why is This Taking SO Long? - The Emerging Adult (opens the original)
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This week on The Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast, we’re going back to an episode every parent of an emerging adult needs to hear: “Why is This Taking SO Long?” — The Emerging Adult. What do you do when your son or daughter seems stuck? They don’t know what they want to do.Their career isn’t taking off.Their timeline looks nothing like the one you imagined. And suddenly their uncertainty becomes your anxiety. In this episode, we talk about backing up, taking the pressure off, recognizing the uni
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