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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Entertainment & Teen Dating

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The teenage years are a wonderful opportunity to grow in discernment. Dr. Ken Wilgus and Jessica Pfeiffer talk with Jim Daly about how your teens can develop discernment with entertainment and dating. Also, Danny and John will remind you to not parent from a place of fear, and why facing challenges is good for a teenager.

 

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Well, hi, I'm Dr. Danny Werta from Practice Makes Parent.

0:03.0

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0:32.4

Well, the teen years are so ripe with opportunities for your kids to grow in discernment and to develop good

0:38.4

boundaries. And we're going to talk about two topics today where they're going to need

0:42.6

discernment and boundaries. And those are entertainment and dating. I'm John Fuller, along with

0:48.1

our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny Werta. And let's kick off today with a clip from Focus on

0:53.6

the Family with Jim Daly.

0:55.3

Jim spoke with Dr. Ken Wilgus and Jessica Pfeiffer about helping your child with boundaries.

1:00.6

In that context, Ken, those conversations with your 15, 16, 17-year-old, where the discussion

1:08.0

could be a little more mature, obviously, than a 13, 14 year old.

1:11.7

But in that context, the whole key is how to teach them to be responsible for those decisions

1:18.7

that they're going to make.

1:19.8

I think you should start as a parent realizing that you're not going to be able to keep it

1:24.6

all out.

1:25.5

Your kids will find a work around through other friends,

1:28.7

through other. They will get to content they want to get to. That was my conclusion. So the bigger

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