When your kids were little you had a lot more control or so you thought over how to

discipline them. I often joke Danny that if you can pick your child up then

you're in control but as soon as you can't pick them up it's

not so easy and then once they reach the teen years and they're longing for

freedom it's hard how do you start letting go and how do you navigate

things I'm John Fuller here with

Dr. Danny who heads up the focus on the family parenting department. Danny

when the kids hit the teens it can be a little bit of a rough road and you're a psychologist you have all this

training so you and Heather had no problems with your teenagers right?

Not at all. You know actually parents have said that it is harder to parent

teenagers and especially adults, guiding adults and interacting with them

than trying to raise toddlers and infants.

Yeah, sorry to make that sound like a daunting journey.

There's a lot of training along the way as you enjoy the journey.

But really, I remember a time when Alex was just starting to use a phone around 16 years old.

That's when we've started with that endeavor.

We created a little more parenting for ourselves with that,

and that's what I tell parents,

you're creating more parenting

for yourself and this is so true we had said hey you need to plug in your phone by 9 o'clock and

and if it's it needs to be in the kitchen where we're all going to put our phones.

That's part of the agreement, that's part of our contract.

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