“When you hit 18, you’re out of my house and on your own.” Such is the typical approach that parents take with their coming-of-age children. Is that mindset sinful or wrong? Not necessarily, though it’s likely misguided on some level. If parents are under the impression that as soon as their child makes his exodus, the job of parenting has terminated, Jim Newheiser and Elyse Fitzpatrick correct that misunderstanding in their book You Never Stop Being a Parent. If, however, the parents believe it’s their children’s duty to serve and obey them for as long as there is life in the parents, this thinking also is proven wrong. How can parents glorify God in their relationship with their “twixters,” those “adults who are still living at home and who remain in-between adulthood and childhood” (10-11)? That is the fundamental question Newheiser and Fitzpatrick address, and they do so with gospel-saturated, Christ-exalting wisdom and compassion.
There are many commendable highlights of the book, but three stand out: its wisdom, its cross-centered focus, and its practical application resources. When the reader picks up the book and peruses the Table of Contents, he gains clear idea of what Newheiser and Fitzpatrick undertake. Thankfully,
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