Changes in the Teen Years
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Every parent can attest that many things change once your son or daughter reaches the teen years. John and Danny share from their own experiences, and Jim Daly talks with Dr. Gary Chapman about how your kids learn to think differently when they become teenagers.
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| 0:00.0 | My wife and I have six kids and I consider myself something of a teenage |
| 0:07.7 | Whisper I can say that we successfully got them through the teenage years into adulthood. They're all strongly |
| 0:15.1 | independent and doing well generally in life. When the teen years came there were |
| 0:20.9 | these eye rolls. There were tears unexpectedly by both the boys and the girls. |
| 0:27.0 | There were these hormone changes that just made everything difficult, it seemed. |
| 0:32.0 | But it was a beautiful |
| 0:33.2 | wonderful season and we're going to talk about the joys of some of the |
| 0:37.7 | changes that occur in the teen years. I'm John Fuller and along with Dr. |
| 0:41.8 | Danny where to who heads our parenting team and Danny |
| 0:44.4 | your kids are in the teen years what happened way back when 11 1213 when when your |
| 0:52.2 | son and daughter became teens. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah, and John, they are towards the end of those teen years. |
| 0:56.8 | You're a survivor. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, survivor, that's right. |
| 0:59.5 | You know, there are more, on the good side, |
| 1:02.3 | there was some deeper conversations that began to take place and we got |
| 1:05.7 | to in a conversations on political topics, on topics of sexuality, on mental health topics, sports, all kinds of great conversations. |
| 1:16.0 | Along the way, more moodiness, more of the why with boundaries and limits that we put in place I go well so why is that? |
| 1:25.0 | So I just had to be ready for for those moments. I saw that their |
| 1:29.0 | insecurities had increased tremendously. There were a lot more comparisons to their friends |
| 1:35.0 | and what other people were doing, |
| 1:36.6 | and they were adjusting and adapting |
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