When Your Child's Bad Choices Come Home to Roost

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Monday, February 02, 2015

Unfortunately, even good parents might one day see their adult children make poor choices. Here at Focus we've spoken with many heartbroken moms and dads who are grappling to understand and respond well to their grown kids' decisions.

Here are four tips from our counselors on how parents can help their child get back on track.

1. Ease your guilt. Every parent makes mistakes. However, as an adult, your son or daughter is now old enough to make their own choices and to take responsibility for them.

2. Understand the burden of getting life back on track is your child's, not yours. As parents, this is a truth that's all-too-easy to forget. Your role now is to encourage your adult child to make better choices and to give him advice if he asks for it. Just remember that he's old enough to take responsibility for his own life now, so let him be his own person.