How to Biblically Handle Toxic Adult Children (4 Steps)

In this episode, we talk about the 4 steps to handling adult toxic children biblically. 

We're living in a time where toxic parenting is not tolerated so much anymore. The “I'm your mother” line that once worked on kids is no longer enough to bully adult children into submission. And if you've been raised by a toxic parent, I truly empathize with you, but we're also suffering relationships of some epidemic proportion and they're coming from adult toxic children. And there are serious consequences for adult children, who disrespect and dishonor, parents, a growing number of adults or children are disrespectful. Critical manipulative, self-serving, they are magnifying, the parents flaws and minimizing the parental sacrifices and God never excuses, disrespect towards parents and even if your parents made colossal mistakes you can return good for evil.

Ephesians 6:1-3 says, “children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Honor your Father and mother. This is the first commandment with a promise that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be enough to motivate some children today. So parents, what are you to do?  Some will go so far as to return toxic for toxic and throw scripture in their face, in an effort to do their own manipulating, but I want to encourage you to take a step back for a moment. I know the relationship is important to you and I know that you believe you are owed something more than you've been given.

So, I want to help you to understand the best way to biblically handle toxic adult children.

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