WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT
SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHING YOUNG ADULTS
After years of saying, “When I grow up, I’m gonna be…” there comes a point in which your children start going through the steps of actually making it happen.
Dr. James Dobson calls ages 16 to 26 the “critical decade” as young people transition from childhood to an adult. We’ve all heard the phrase “failure to launch” describing young men and women who don’t make that transition for one reason or another.
Unfortunately, more and more parents are inadvertently keeping their children from growing up by protecting them from the risks necessary to adulthood.
How can you be intentional about
successfully launching your older children?
GOING FURTHER
RESOURCES
- Life on the Edge: The Next Generation’s Guide to a Meaningful Future by Dr. James Dobson
Offers Biblical principles to help young adults face “crucial questions about identity, education, marriage, career, God’s will” and more.
- Letting Them Go by Dave Veerman
Offers practical advice for the time together before they leave, and a sneak peek that will arise after they have gone.
- Release My Grip: Hope for a Parent’s Heart as Kids Leave the Nest and Learn to Fly by Kami Gilmour
Offers insight into how this time can be fertile ground for deepening your relationship with Jesus.
- Boundless.org
Webzine that provides young adults with a community of mentors and fellow believers throughout the season of transition from high school to starting a family.