So do you understand now that your teenager is not an old child, he and she are a young,

they are a young adult?

You should think of a teenager as an adult in training and your task is to move them

on.

Well today we're continuing a great presentation for parenting pre-teens and teenagers.

It's a best of 2022 edition of Focus on the Family featuring Dr. Ken Wilgness.

Thanks for joining us, your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

John, this is really good stuff and I need to tell you, I mean Jean and I applied Dr. Wilgness's

approaches to Trent and Troy and they really worked and I would want to give that seal of approval

that it helped our family.

Dr. Ken has been talking about progressively giving more and more responsibility to your

child and allowing more freedoms so that they can learn how to become competent adults

while they're still under your roof and he's also emphasizing the importance of good communication

which can be a bit different when you're dealing with teenagers.

Ken Wilgness is a psychologist who specializes in adolescent behavior and he's the author

of the book called Feeding the Mouth that bites you, a complete guide to parenting adolescents

and launching them into the world and we highly recommend it.

And Daly do, get a copy from us here when you get in touch.

Again our number 800A family.

Here now Dr. Ken Wilgness speaking at an event sponsored by Christ Church of the Valley

in Phoenix, Arizona on today's Best of 2022 edition of Focus on the Family.

If you listen to my podcast one of the episodes I'm interviewing my own children, dangerous

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