The Parent Pivot Podcast
Pivoting from Parenting to Partnering with Your Adult Children. Do you want relationship? Or do you want to be right? You can't have both.
The Parent Pivot Podcast
Pivoting from Parenting to Partnering with Your Adult Children. Do you want relationship? Or do you want to be right? You can't have both.
About The Parent Pivot Podcast
Pivoting from Parenting to Partnering with Your Adult Children. Do you want relationship? Or do you want to be right? You can't have both.
We are Steve and Julia Cummings and we are empty nesters who desire to maintain healthy relationship with our adult children.
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Recent Episodes
"My Adult Child Won't Speak to Me!" - Interview with Dr. Ken Canfield and Dr. Michelle Watson-Canfield
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 20, 2026
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Musings of an Adult Child: Interview with Steve & Julia Cummings
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 13, 2026
For 2026 - Take the 30,000 Foot View!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 6, 2026
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: "Mammas, Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up . . . NOT!”
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 30, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: What to Do With Your Kids Stuff When They Move On
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 23, 2025
"Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast" - Being Generous to Our Adult Children: How Much is Too Much?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 16, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Becoming a Champion Partner to Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 9, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: 31 Words That Will Change Your Family Trajectory for Generations
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 2, 2025
Gratitude, Connection, and the Power of Choosing Peace.
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 25, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - Hot Tip #44 to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child: Speak Life
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 18, 2025
Legacy Starts Now: What Will You Pass On?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 11, 2025
Beware of the Caution Flag!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 4, 2025
When Celebrating An Adult Child Goes Sideways
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 28, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - Holidays, Traditions and Change: How Do We Navigate This Season?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 21, 2025
The Silent Treatment Isn’t a Strategy
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 14, 2025
Finding Joy in Your Adult Kids
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 7, 2025
The Adult "Golden" Child and Being a Good Partner to All Your Kids
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 30, 2025
"Best of" The Parent Pivot Podcast: When Your Adult Child Cuts Off Relationship
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 23, 2025
"To Engage? or NOT To Engage? THAT is the Question"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 16, 2025
Having a Difficult Conversation with Your Adult Child: Is It Worth Saying?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 9, 2025
Control, Expectations and a New Season
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 2, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Let Them Vent
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 26, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Hit the Pause Button!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 19, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: Pivoting to Being a Partner Means - Get a Life!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 12, 2025
Be a Disrupter!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 5, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - "The Secret to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 29, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: "When Your Adult Child is Hurting: What NOT to Do"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 22, 2025
"Broken to Blessed" - Interview with Dr. John Trent and Kari Trent Stageberg
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 15, 2025
How Do We Get Through a Holiday Without Our Kids?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 8, 2025
Pivoting Well Requires Short Memories, Giving Grace & Believing the Best
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 1, 2025
"Therefore . . . "
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 24, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast - "Pivoting with Your In-Law Kids: Interview with Ashleigh Cummings
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 17, 2025
What a Week with Our Kids and Grandkids Taught Us
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 10, 2025
Best of The Parent Pivot Podcast: "Having Hard Conversations with Your Adult Child"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 3, 2025
"Generosity and Our Adult Kids"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 27, 2025
"Me? Offensive? Are You Joking?"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 20, 2025
How Birthday Celebrations "Can" Impact Your Pivot to Partner
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 13, 2025
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: Navigating This New Season of Empty Nesting
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 6, 2025
One Symptom of How a Parent Gets Stuck Making the Pivot to Partner
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 29, 2025
"Mammas, Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up . . . NOT!"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 22, 2025
"Messy Journey: How Grace and Truth Offer the Prodigal a Way Home": Interview with Lori Wildenberg
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 15, 2025
My Adult Child's Marriage is in Trouble: Now What?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 1, 2025
Eggshells and Confidence: When the Ground is Shaky with Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 25, 2025
One Adult Child and Some Unique Dynamics to Navigate
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 18, 2025
"One Choice Away from Change" - Interview with Justin and Trish Davis
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 11, 2025
Gut Check Time with In-Law Relationships
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 4, 2025
"Know Thyself!"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 25, 2025
For Dads Only: How We Can Become the Hero with Our Adult Kids
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 18, 2025
"We're Talking About Our Adult Kids . . . Again!": Interview with Author Gill Tillmann
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 11, 2025
When TikTok Goes Viral: Steve & Julia Address Issues Related to Cutoff Relationships
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 4, 2025
Helicopter Mom Rehab 101
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 28, 2025
Sacred Partnering: Pivoting Includes Your Own Sanctification
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 21, 2025
"I Miss Talking to My Adult Child"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 14, 2025
Moving the Needle in 2025: 14 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Adult Child(ren)
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 7, 2025
"I Don't Want Your Faith!" A Father-Daughter Story to Learn From
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 10, 2024
Heart & Life Cleanse: Becoming a Healthier Version of You
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 26, 2024
The Holidays and Family Conversations
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 19, 2024
Detours Happen
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 12, 2024
How We Can Use Social Media to ENHANCE Relationship with Our Adult Children
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 5, 2024
The Best Thing We Can Do for Our Adult "Offspring" is . . .
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 29, 2024
Getting Respect And Celebrating Each other: G-R-A-C-E
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 22, 2024
"My Relationship Has Been Cutoff with My Parent (or Adult Child)! Now What?"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 15, 2024
"I'm Married (or Dating) and My Parent's Don't Approve of My Choice"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 8, 2024
Healthy Texting Tips for Pivoting Partners
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 1, 2024
The Most Neglected Aspect of Becoming a Good Partner to Our Adult Kids
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 24, 2024
This One's for You 20 & 30-Somethings!: Steve & Julia Talk to the Next Gen
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 17, 2024
Comedy, Empty Nesting and Ecclesiastes: Interview with Comedian Jeff Allen
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 10, 2024
Our Nest is Empty. Now What?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 3, 2024
How to Thrive After Your Kids Leave Home: Interview with Author and Speaker, Jill Savage
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 27, 2024
"I Blew It." - An Inside Peek at How Steve Handled a Recent Family Matter
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 20, 2024
A Common Generational Blindspot & the Road to Healing
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 13, 2024
"I Can't Do This Anymore!" - Interview with Suzanne Roragen, author of "Unconditional"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 6, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast - "What Do You Do When . . . ?": Steve & Julia Respond to a Loyal Listener's Situation
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 30, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast - Being Generous to Our Adult Children: How Much is Too Much?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 23, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: When It Seems Hopeless - Interview with Jamilyn Upchurch
The Parent Pivot Podcast • 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
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 9, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: Having Hard Conversations with Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 2, 2024
Best of the Parent Pivot Podcast: "Doing Life with Your Adult Children" Interview with author Dr. Jim Burns
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 25, 2024
Summer is Here!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 18, 2024
Partners: Find Joy in This Season! Here's How
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 11, 2024
How to Tell If You're Stuck in "Parent Mode"
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 4, 2024
Anxiety, Idols and Becoming a Prodigal Partner
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 28, 2024
Musings of an Adult Child: Interview with Steve & Julia Cummings
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 21, 2024
Pivoting Includes Intentional Legacy Building: Interview with Wayne Rice
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 14, 2024
Pivoting to Partner Means Being a Buffalo, Not a Cow
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 7, 2024
Majoring on the Minors Fractures Relationship
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 30, 2024
When the Pivot to Partner Becomes Lonely: There's Hope!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 23, 2024
How We Can Be an Advocate to Our In-Law Adult Kids: Interview with Actor Taylor Upchurch
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 16, 2024
When Your Anxiety Impacts Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 9, 2024
The Antagonistic Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 2, 2024
Pivoting with Your In-Law Kids: Interview with Ashleigh Cummings
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 26, 2024
Is Your Adult Child an HSP?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 19, 2024
Reinventing the Relationship with Our Adult Children
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 12, 2024
Seasons Come and Seasons Go.
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 5, 2024
What to Do With Your Kids Stuff When They Move On
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 27, 2024
Inside Steve's Story as a "Type A" Parent
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 20, 2024
How Identity and Worth Ruin the Pivot from Parent to Partner
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 13, 2024
"What Do You Do When . . . ?": Steve & Julia Respond to a Loyal Listener's Situation
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 6, 2024
Tip #54: Put the Spotlight on You
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 30, 2024
Having Hard Conversations with Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 23, 2024
Being Generous to Our Adult Children: How Much is Too Much?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 16, 2024
One Simple Step to Becoming a Better Partner in 2024
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 9, 2024
It’s Okay to Take Your Shoes Off!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 2, 2024
Becoming a Champion Partner to Your Adult Child(ren)
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 26, 2023
The Gravitational Effect
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 19, 2023
31 Words That Will Change Your Family Trajectory for Generations
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 12, 2023
What’s in a Name?: When Your Kids Have Kids
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Dec 5, 2023
Hot Tip #45 for Growing Your Relationship with Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 28, 2023
Hot Tip #44 to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child: Speak Life
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 21, 2023
Holidays, Traditions and Change: How Do We Navigate This Season?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 14, 2023
How Addiction Can Bring You Closer to Your Adult Kids
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Nov 7, 2023
Tribe vs. Tribalism: What is the Difference and How Does That Help Us Pivot?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 31, 2023
Fight the Lies: You Are Not Responsible!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 24, 2023
Achieving a Healthier Balance: Cultivating Emotional Maturity
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 17, 2023
When Your Adult Child is Hurting: What NOT to Do
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 10, 2023
The Secret to a Deeper Relationship with Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Oct 3, 2023
Multi-Generational Family Living Part 2: Interview with Jon & Cheri Talbert
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 26, 2023
Multi-Generational Family Living Part 1: Interview with Jon & Cheri Talbert
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 19, 2023
Give Them Room to Grow!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 12, 2023
When Your Adult Child Cuts Off Relationship
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Sep 5, 2023
Looking Deeper Inside Ourselves to Becoming a Great Partner to Our Adult Kids
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 29, 2023
Pay It Forward If You Can: Creating a Legacy of Generosity
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 22, 2023
Summertime Check: How Are You Doing?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 15, 2023
”Why is This Taking SO Long?” - The Emerging Adult
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 8, 2023
Their Perception is Their Reality:
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Aug 1, 2023
You’re Not Responsible for Your Spouse’s Relationships
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 25, 2023
Partnering As Grandparents
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 18, 2023
Relationships 201: The Three B’s
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 11, 2023
We See You, Sandwich Generation!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jul 4, 2023
”I’m Going to the Sidelines” - When It’s Time to Take a Step Back: Interview with Jackson Cummings
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 27, 2023
When It Seems Hopeless: Interview with Jamilyn Upchurch
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 20, 2023
”I Feel Helpless. What Do I Do?”
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 13, 2023
The Swivel Pivot: Being a Parent AND a Partner Simultaneously
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jun 6, 2023
Being a Good In-Law
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 30, 2023
Molds Were Made to Be Broken: Interview with G. Campbell Cummings
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 23, 2023
The Gold Standard for Pivoting from Parent to Partner
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 16, 2023
We See You, Single Parents!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 9, 2023
”Doing Life with Your Adult Children” - Interview with author Dr. Jim Burns
The Parent Pivot Podcast • May 2, 2023
”Don’t Poke the Bear”
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 25, 2023
The Importance Grieving Plays as You Pivot from Parent to Partner
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 18, 2023
Keep the Main Thing the ”Main Thing”
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 11, 2023
Enforcing Boundaries: What’s the Right Decision?
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Apr 4, 2023
Communicating Boundaries to Your Adult Child
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 28, 2023
”Not My Pig, Not My Farm!”
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 21, 2023
Pivoting to Being a Partner Means - Get a Life!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 14, 2023
Your Adult Child is Watching You Pivot!
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Mar 7, 2023
Navigating the Season of Being Empty Nesters
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 28, 2023
It’s Never Too Late: Interview with Wes Cummings
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 21, 2023
Let Them Fail
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 14, 2023
You’re Still the Parent.
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Feb 7, 2023
Let Them Vent
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 31, 2023
Hit the Pause Button
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 24, 2023
Parent Pivot Podcast Trailer
The Parent Pivot Podcast • Jan 17, 2023
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