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Lay Your Whistle Down and Pick Your Pompoms Up is a fast-paced, honest, and sometimes uncomfortable look at one of the hardest transitions parents face: your role as a parent when your children are adults.
Using the metaphor of a relay race, Todd Wilson walks parents through the moment when the baton is passed—when control is gone, opinions are no longer invited, and influence must be earned in a completely different way. With humor, humility, and hard-earned wisdom, he challenges parents to stop coaching from the sidelines, stop blowing the whistle, and start cheering.
This book is for parents who:
> Love their adult children deeply—but don’t always know what to say
> Are afraid of saying the wrong thing and losing the relationship
> Feel the tension between truth, grace, boundaries, and love
> Want to keep their children close, even when they disagree> Believe family is worth fighting for
This is not a parenting manual filled with formulas or guarantees. It’s a call to humility, perseverance, forgiveness, and hope. Because batons get dropped. Relationships get strained. And the race isn’t over yet.
If you want influence instead of distance, connection instead of control, and relationship instead of being right—this book is for you.
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Just what I needed!
Posted by Nicole on May 5th 2026
This book couldn’t have come at a better time. Our oldest of four just turned 21 and our second just graduated and turned 18. I thought, where are all the books now to help with this season?! Enter Todd! :) This book is the perfect mix of humor, sincerity, encouragement, and reminder of God’s sovereignty over our adult children. The analogy of parenting being a relay race couldn’t be more accurate. I closed the book with good tears and the assurance of my job as mom of adults- just cheer them on and watch God complete His work. I know it will be a book I read many times to keep the proper perspective.
