Letting Your Kids Grow & Go with Christy Mobley

The parenting series continues with a candid conversation about letting your kids go and giving them permission to stand on their own.

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Show Notes for Episode 130: Letting Your Kids Grow & Go

Christy Mobley talks about your role shifting with your adult children and how to let them grow and go without interfering.

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Today’s Guest: Christy Mobley is an award winning devotional writer and a gifted communicator who finds great joy in encouraging women of all ages to deepen their walk with Jesus Christ. Her greatest fulfillment in life comes from the blessing of family — being a wife, mom, mother-in-law and grandmother to three rug-rats. In her spare time if she’s not chasing one her grandchildren you can find her on a tennis court chasing a fuzzy yellow ball.

You can connect with Christy on Facebook or on her website.

Things We Talk About:

Tough love
Giving your kids permission to let you go
Open Letter to My Boys
Luke 2:41-52
Genesis 2:24
Jochebed, Moses’ mother
Deuteronomy 6:7
Matthew 22:37
Advice to mother-in-laws
Advice to daughter-in-laws
Martha and Mary Show Sisterhood Group

Jochebed did in 3-5 years what moms sometimes find hard to do in 18-20 years. -Christy Mobley #marthamaryshow #moses #momlife #mops #Scripture Share on X

Some takeaways from this conversation:

Are you letting your kids discover who Jesus is to them?
Does your job have an expiration date?
Your kids are more capable than you or they realize.
When you interfere with the union in any way you are standing in the way of them obeying God’s command in Genesis 2:24.
It takes time and experience to grow trust.
Are you giving your son-in-law or daughter-in-law space and grace?

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