The Parent Pivot Podcast

By Steve and Julia Cummings

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We are Steve and Julia Cummings and we are empty nesters who desire to maintain healthy relationship with our adult children. We have found that something needs to change in us, the parent, when our child becomes an adult. We need to ”pivot” from parenting, to partnering. What does that look like? When do I say something and when do I not? Why won’t they listen to me? We address these questions and host more in a real, raw an vulnerable way in real time. Tune in each week as we help you become a partner to your adult children. New podcast weblog

Episode Date
“Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast” — When Your Adult Child Struggles, Did You Fail?
Sep 22, 2026
Influence Is Earned, Not Demanded: Interview with Catherine Hickem
Sep 15, 2026
When Helping Becomes Rescuing
Sep 08, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - The Gold Standard
Sep 01, 2026
The Buck Stops Here: Breaking Generational Cycles With Your Adult Kids
Aug 25, 2026
"The Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Why is This Taking SO Long? - The Emerging Adult
Aug 18, 2026
“Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast” — Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing: Your Marriage
Aug 11, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Be a Better Version of Yourself"
Aug 04, 2026
When Mamma Bear Takes Over
Jul 28, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - 31 Words That Will Change Your Family Trajectory for Generations
Jul 21, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Multi-Generational Family Living Part 2: Interview with Jon & Cheri Talbert
Jul 14, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Multi-Generational Family Living Part 1: Interview with Jon & Cheri Talbert
Jul 07, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Their Perception is Their Reality
Jun 30, 2026
When Disagreement Becomes Disconnection
Jun 23, 2026
When You Let Them Go: How Releasing Your Adult Child Can Strengthen Your Relationship
Jun 16, 2026
The Courage to Release: Pivoting with Adult Children in an Anxious World. Interview with Seth Barnes
Jun 09, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Summer is Here!
Jun 02, 2026
The Boy You're Worried About Isn't Finished Yet
May 26, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Cultivating Emotional Maturity
May 19, 2026
“You Won’t Be Fine” — The Fear Behind Letting Go
May 12, 2026
The Hardest Pivot: Loving Your Adult Children Without Losing Yourself - Interview with Dr Kathy Koch
May 05, 2026
“I Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know": Letting Go of Parenting Regret
Apr 28, 2026
“You’re Not Helping: Why Your Adult Child Needs You to Let Them Fail”
Apr 21, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - When Your Adult Child is Hurting: What NOT to Do
Apr 14, 2026
When Your Adult Child Gets Engaged: Where Do You Step In… and Step Back?
Apr 07, 2026
Seen, Not Controlled: The Secret to Staying Close to Your Adult Child - Interview with Miriam Groom
Mar 31, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast:" Comedy, Empty Nesting and Ecclesiastes - Interview with Comedian Jeff Allen
Mar 24, 2026
Grandparents vs. No-Screen Parenting: How to Have the Conversation
Mar 17, 2026
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - How to Thrive After Your Kids Leave Home: Interview with Jill Savage
Mar 10, 2026
The “Angry” Daughter-in-Law — Or Is She Just Alone?
Mar 03, 2026
When Generosity Backfires: Tough Love, Adult Kids & Going "Full Miyagi"
Feb 24, 2026
Bite Your Tongue: When Your Adult Child Parents Differently Than You Would
Feb 17, 2026
"Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast" - Interview with Gill Tillmann
Feb 10, 2026
Repair Work Starts with Looking in the Mirror
Feb 03, 2026
Partners of Prodigals, This One's for You!: Interview with Dr. James Banks
Jan 27, 2026
"My Adult Child Won't Speak to Me!" - Interview with Dr. Ken Canfield and Dr. Michelle Watson-Canfield
Jan 20, 2026
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Musings of an Adult Child: Interview with Steve & Julia Cummings
Jan 13, 2026
For 2026 - Take the 30,000 Foot View!
Jan 06, 2026
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: "Mammas, Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up . . . NOT!”
Dec 30, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: What to Do With Your Kids Stuff When They Move On
Dec 23, 2025
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Being Generous to Our Adult Children: How Much is Too Much?
Dec 16, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Becoming a Champion Partner to Your Adult Child
Dec 09, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: 31 Words That Will Change Your Family Trajectory for Generations
Dec 02, 2025
Gratitude, Connection, and the Power of Choosing Peace.
Nov 25, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - Hot Tip #44 to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child: Speak Life
Nov 18, 2025
Legacy Starts Now: What Will You Pass On?
Nov 11, 2025
Beware of the Caution Flag!
Nov 04, 2025
When Celebrating An Adult Child Goes Sideways
Oct 28, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - Holidays, Traditions and Change: How Do We Navigate This Season?
Oct 21, 2025
The Silent Treatment Isn’t a Strategy
Oct 14, 2025
Finding Joy in Your Adult Kids
Oct 07, 2025
The Adult "Golden" Child and Being a Good Partner to All Your Kids
Sep 30, 2025
"Best of" The Parent Pivot Podcast: When Your Adult Child Cuts Off Relationship
Sep 23, 2025
"To Engage? or NOT To Engage? THAT is the Question"
Sep 16, 2025
Having a Difficult Conversation with Your Adult Child: Is It Worth Saying?
Sep 09, 2025
Control, Expectations and a New Season
Sep 02, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Let Them Vent
Aug 26, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Hit the Pause Button!
Aug 19, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Pivoting to Being a Partner Means - Get a Life!
Aug 12, 2025
Be a Disrupter!
Aug 05, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - "The Secret to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child"
Jul 29, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: "When Your Adult Child is Hurting: What NOT to Do"
Jul 22, 2025
"Broken to Blessed" - Interview with Dr. John Trent and Kari Trent Stageberg
Jul 15, 2025
How Do We Get Through a Holiday Without Our Kids?
Jul 08, 2025
Pivoting Well Requires Short Memories, Giving Grace & Believing the Best
Jul 01, 2025
"Therefore . . . "
Jun 24, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - "Pivoting with Your In-Law Kids: Interview with Ashleigh Cummings
Jun 17, 2025
What a Week with Our Kids and Grandkids Taught Us
Jun 10, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: "Having Hard Conversations with Your Adult Child"
Jun 03, 2025
"Generosity and Our Adult Kids"
May 27, 2025
"Me? Offensive? Are You Joking?"
May 20, 2025
How Birthday Celebrations "Can" Impact Your Pivot to Partner
May 13, 2025
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: Navigating This New Season of Empty Nesting
May 06, 2025
One Symptom of How a Parent Gets Stuck Making the Pivot to Partner
Apr 29, 2025
"Mammas, Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up . . . NOT!"
Apr 22, 2025
"Messy Journey: How Grace and Truth Offer the Prodigal a Way Home": Interview with Lori Wildenberg
Apr 15, 2025
My Adult Child's Marriage is in Trouble: Now What?
Apr 01, 2025
Eggshells and Confidence: When the Ground is Shaky with Your Adult Child
Mar 25, 2025
One Adult Child and Some Unique Dynamics to Navigate
Mar 18, 2025
"One Choice Away from Change" - Interview with Justin and Trish Davis
Mar 11, 2025
Gut Check Time with In-Law Relationships
Mar 04, 2025
"Know Thyself!"
Feb 25, 2025
For Dads Only: How We Can Become the Hero with Our Adult Kids
Feb 18, 2025
"We're Talking About Our Adult Kids . . . Again!": Interview with Author Gill Tillmann
Feb 11, 2025
When TikTok Goes Viral: Steve & Julia Address Issues Related to Cutoff Relationships
Feb 04, 2025
Helicopter Mom Rehab 101
Jan 28, 2025
Sacred Partnering: Pivoting Includes Your Own Sanctification
Jan 21, 2025
"I Miss Talking to My Adult Child"
Jan 14, 2025
Moving the Needle in 2025: 14 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Adult Child(ren)
Jan 07, 2025
"I Don't Want Your Faith!" A Father-Daughter Story to Learn From
Dec 10, 2024
Heart & Life Cleanse: Becoming a Healthier Version of You
Nov 26, 2024
The Holidays and Family Conversations
Nov 19, 2024
Detours Happen
Nov 12, 2024
How We Can Use Social Media to ENHANCE Relationship with Our Adult Children
Nov 05, 2024
The Best Thing We Can Do for Our Adult "Offspring" is . . .
Oct 29, 2024
Getting Respect And Celebrating Each other: G-R-A-C-E
Oct 22, 2024
"My Relationship Has Been Cutoff with My Parent (or Adult Child)! Now What?"
Oct 15, 2024
"I'm Married (or Dating) and My Parent's Don't Approve of My Choice"
Oct 08, 2024
Healthy Texting Tips for Pivoting Partners
Oct 01, 2024
The Most Neglected Aspect of Becoming a Good Partner to Our Adult Kids
Sep 24, 2024
This One's for You 20 & 30-Somethings!: Steve & Julia Talk to the Next Gen
Sep 17, 2024
Comedy, Empty Nesting and Ecclesiastes: Interview with Comedian Jeff Allen
Sep 10, 2024
Our Nest is Empty. Now What?
Sep 03, 2024
How to Thrive After Your Kids Leave Home: Interview with Author and Speaker, Jill Savage
Aug 27, 2024
"I Blew It." - An Inside Peek at How Steve Handled a Recent Family Matter
Aug 20, 2024
A Common Generational Blindspot & the Road to Healing
Aug 13, 2024
"I Can't Do This Anymore!" - Interview with Suzanne Roragen, author of "Unconditional"
Aug 06, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast - "What Do You Do When . . . ?": Steve & Julia Respond to a Loyal Listener's Situation
Jul 30, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast - Being Generous to Our Adult Children: How Much is Too Much?
Jul 23, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: When It Seems Hopeless - Interview with Jamilyn Upchurch
Jul 16, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: ”I’m Going to the Sidelines” - When It’s Time to Take a Step Back: Interview with Jackson Cummings
Jul 09, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: Having Hard Conversations with Your Adult Child
Jul 02, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: "Doing Life with Your Adult Children" Interview with author Dr. Jim Burns
Jun 25, 2024
Summer is Here!
Jun 18, 2024
Partners: Find Joy in This Season! Here's How
Jun 11, 2024
How to Tell If You're Stuck in "Parent Mode"
Jun 04, 2024
Anxiety, Idols and Becoming a Prodigal Partner
May 28, 2024
Musings of an Adult Child: Interview with Steve & Julia Cummings
May 21, 2024
Pivoting Includes Intentional Legacy Building: Interview with Wayne Rice
May 14, 2024
Pivoting to Partner Means Being a Buffalo, Not a Cow
May 07, 2024
Majoring on the Minors Fractures Relationship
Apr 30, 2024
When the Pivot to Partner Becomes Lonely: There's Hope!
Apr 23, 2024
How We Can Be an Advocate to Our In-Law Adult Kids: Interview with Actor Taylor Upchurch
Apr 16, 2024
When Your Anxiety Impacts Your Adult Child
Apr 09, 2024
The Antagonistic Adult Child
Apr 02, 2024
Pivoting with Your In-Law Kids: Interview with Ashleigh Cummings
Mar 26, 2024
Is Your Adult Child an HSP?
Mar 19, 2024
Reinventing the Relationship with Our Adult Children
Mar 12, 2024
Seasons Come and Seasons Go.
Mar 05, 2024
What to Do With Your Kids Stuff When They Move On
Feb 27, 2024
Inside Steve's Story as a "Type A" Parent
Feb 20, 2024
How Identity and Worth Ruin the Pivot from Parent to Partner
Feb 13, 2024
"What Do You Do When . . . ?": Steve & Julia Respond to a Loyal Listener's Situation
Feb 06, 2024
Tip #54: Put the Spotlight on You
Jan 30, 2024
Having Hard Conversations with Your Adult Child
Jan 23, 2024
Being Generous to Our Adult Children: How Much is Too Much?
Jan 16, 2024
One Simple Step to Becoming a Better Partner in 2024
Jan 09, 2024
It’s Okay to Take Your Shoes Off!
Jan 02, 2024
Becoming a Champion Partner to Your Adult Child(ren)
Dec 26, 2023
The Gravitational Effect
Dec 19, 2023
31 Words That Will Change Your Family Trajectory for Generations
Dec 12, 2023
What’s in a Name?: When Your Kids Have Kids
Dec 05, 2023
Hot Tip #45 for Growing Your Relationship with Your Adult Child
Nov 28, 2023
Hot Tip #44 to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child: Speak Life
Nov 21, 2023
Holidays, Traditions and Change: How Do We Navigate This Season?
Nov 14, 2023
How Addiction Can Bring You Closer to Your Adult Kids
Nov 07, 2023
Tribe vs. Tribalism: What is the Difference and How Does That Help Us Pivot?
Oct 31, 2023
Fight the Lies: You Are Not Responsible!
Oct 24, 2023
Achieving a Healthier Balance: Cultivating Emotional Maturity
Oct 17, 2023
When Your Adult Child is Hurting: What NOT to Do
Oct 10, 2023
The Secret to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child
Oct 03, 2023
Multi-Generational Family Living Part 2: Interview with Jon & Cheri Talbert
Sep 26, 2023
Multi-Generational Family Living Part 1: Interview with Jon & Cheri Talbert
Sep 19, 2023
Give Them Room to Grow!
Sep 12, 2023
When Your Adult Child Cuts Off Relationship
Sep 05, 2023
Looking Deeper Inside Ourselves to Becoming a Great Partner to Our Adult Kids
Aug 29, 2023
Pay It Forward If You Can: Creating a Legacy of Generosity
Aug 22, 2023
Summertime Check: How Are You Doing?
Aug 15, 2023
”Why is This Taking SO Long?” - The Emerging Adult
Aug 08, 2023
Their Perception is Their Reality:
Aug 01, 2023
You’re Not Responsible for Your Spouse’s Relationships
Jul 25, 2023
Partnering As Grandparents
Jul 18, 2023
Relationships 201: The Three B’s
Jul 11, 2023
We See You, Sandwich Generation!
Jul 04, 2023
”I’m Going to the Sidelines” - When It’s Time to Take a Step Back: Interview with Jackson Cummings
Jun 27, 2023
When It Seems Hopeless: Interview with Jamilyn Upchurch
Jun 20, 2023
”I Feel Helpless. What Do I Do?”
Jun 13, 2023
The Swivel Pivot: Being a Parent AND a Partner Simultaneously
Jun 06, 2023
Being a Good In-Law
May 30, 2023
Molds Were Made to Be Broken: Interview with G. Campbell Cummings
May 23, 2023
The Gold Standard for Pivoting from Parent to Partner
May 16, 2023
We See You, Single Parents!
May 09, 2023
”Doing Life with Your Adult Children” - Interview with author Dr. Jim Burns
May 02, 2023
”Don’t Poke the Bear”
Apr 25, 2023
The Importance Grieving Plays as You Pivot from Parent to Partner
Apr 18, 2023
Keep the Main Thing the ”Main Thing”
Apr 11, 2023
Enforcing Boundaries: What’s the Right Decision?
Apr 04, 2023
Communicating Boundaries to Your Adult Child
Mar 28, 2023
”Not My Pig, Not My Farm!”
Mar 21, 2023
Pivoting to Being a Partner Means - Get a Life!
Mar 14, 2023
Your Adult Child is Watching You Pivot!
Mar 07, 2023
Navigating the Season of Being Empty Nesters
Feb 28, 2023
It’s Never Too Late: Interview with Wes Cummings
Feb 21, 2023
Let Them Fail
Feb 14, 2023
You’re Still the Parent.
Feb 07, 2023
Let Them Vent
Jan 31, 2023
Hit the Pause Button
Jan 24, 2023
Parent Pivot Podcast Trailer
Jan 17, 2023