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Focus on Parenting Podcast

Agreeing to Disagree with Your Teen

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

What can you do if your teenager says something that you strongly disagree with? Dr. Ken Wilgus talks with Jim Daly about how parents can still maintain a relationship, even if there's a disagreement. You'll then hear from John and Danny on what to do if a disagreement is very serious.

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0:00.0

Some children will naturally be agreeable, others naturally disagreeable,

0:08.0

they're going to say things that are contrary to you no matter what.

0:11.6

How do you handle those moments, whichever child it is

0:15.0

when you don't quite agree with them? I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny

0:19.5

where to who heads up the focus on the family parenting department. And Danny, talk about a time when maybe you disagreed

0:26.7

with a choice one of your kids was making

0:28.6

or some perspective that they were offering about life.

0:33.2

Yeah, those can be rich moments.

0:35.0

They can be frustrating.

0:35.8

You've got to be ready for that.

0:38.7

And they will come.

0:40.0

I remember now, my son is 21. it was a few months ago close to Halloween time

0:47.0

he's been dating this this young woman who he intends to to marry here in the next

0:52.0

year so we're so excited about.

0:55.0

They decided to go watch a horror movie and in our in our home he knows we do not do

1:01.7

horror movies but her family does do horror movies they

1:05.8

watch that as part of their norm and and I said son you know you know my worldview

1:11.3

on that there there's I believe there's demonic stuff there with it

1:15.2

there's it's just not good you're feeding some some bad things into your mind

1:19.4

he said dad it doesn't affect me it It's not, I disagree with you.

1:24.4

I said, oh, this is so important.

1:25.9

That's fantastic.

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