Best of 2022: Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood (Part 1 of 2)

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this best of 2022 broadcast, Dr. Ken Wilgus encourages parents to deliberately work their way out of the parenting role by the time their child is 18, and instructs them to see their teenagers as young adults, not large children. He offers tips on how to progressively give your teen more responsibility, along with examples of how to have difficult conversations on a range of topics, from music choices to dating.

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0:00.0	I call it planned emancipation.
0:05.4	Planed emancipation is you taking the reins and marshaling an orderly retreat out of your
0:12.9	teenager's lives.
0:14.9	Well, if you have teenagers or preteens, stay tuned because we have a plan for successful
0:20.9	parenting that you won't want to miss.
0:23.3	Welcome to a best of 2022 episode of Focus on the Family, your host is Focus President,
0:28.9	Dr. Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller.
0:31.4	Our listeners love this message from Dr. Ken Wilgis when we air it in August.
0:35.6	So we're bringing it back in case you missed it.
0:38.0	Dr. Ken will be sharing a firm yet friendly strategy that will help you actually prepare
0:43.4	your teens for the responsibilities of adult life.
0:47.0	Dr. Ken is a psychologist, author and speaker who specializes in adolescent behavior and
0:52.7	he has a private practice in Dallas, Texas.
0:55.6	His book is called Feeding the Mouth at Bychew and he's been in the studio with us
0:59.5	John a couple of times in the past.
1:01.7	And this time we're sharing a presentation he gave to a big crowd of parents at an event
1:06.3	sponsored by Christ Church of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona.
1:10.3	Here now Dr. Ken Wilgis on Focus on the Family.
1:16.2	So here's what we're going to do is that there's kind of two parts.
1:20.0	The first thing is that I want to talk to you about what is close to a magic thing that
1:28.1	you need to know.
1:29.9	There is a thing that if you and it'll take about 15, 20 minutes for you to be enlightened
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