Hi, friends. I have a little surprise for you. I got together with Valerie

Homaker of Latter Day Struggles,

and we took your questions about parenting teens in and around the LDS Church. So I hope you

enjoy this fun episode, and I hope you find it helpful. Hello, everyone. Welcome to

Latter Day Struggles. And Ask Dr. Julie Hanks podcast.

We are back together again because we had so much fun last time. Julie and I decided we wanted

to get together from time to time and both tackle tough topics and also periodically

answer some of your questions. And today, what we're going to do is we are

going to be responding to a number of questions that many of you have asked both of us from our

social media platforms as it regards the tough topic of parenting adolescents in and around

the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latterty Saints. And so both Julie and I got a lot of questions. A lot of interest in this topic.

Well, and we thought, well, how many, we could spend a couple of dozen hours on answering these.

So we went through them and picked a few themes. And this is not to say,

if your question is not answered here, that's not saying that it isn't a good question and it's not

important. And we are banking these questions because we do want to continue to come on from time to

time and address topics of this nature.

So hopefully some of the questions that you asked us are going to be addressed and maybe some

questions that you didn't ask are going to be addressed because there, of course, were some

common themes that played out in the several dozen questions that we both received. Anything you want to

add before we get started, Julie? And then I'll read the... No, no, I just, I think this is such a

difficult time for parents, especially with adolescents being so bright and so accepting and loving that it's like, they're asking questions that

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