You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world. As always, we are

joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus. Hey everyone and welcome back. This is Dr. Ken.

I know, right? Today's episode I'm calling Dr. Ken's Essentials.

So the girls are very busy with graduation, end-of-school stuff, all that, you know, the stuff you all know about.

So I wanted to give them some rest.

But secondly, I've been doing more speaking than I have usually, which always for me involves question and answer,

and including the questions that always come up in my office. So I've been really thinking a lot

about what is essential. That is that there's a lot of information that we've provided,

the book provides, but what are some of the things that come up over and over again?

So today I wanted to do an episode that really covers the kind of questions,

the kind of struggles that many parents are dealing with and the things that keep coming up.

It's hard to say, well, go back to this episode and do that, so maybe an essential episode would make it a little easier.

For example, today's episode takes on handling phones.

For those of you that need encouragement, every parent I know is struggling probably more than with

any other limit setting, it's phones. So I'll try to give some advice about that. We may need to do a

whole new episode update just in dealing with phones for your kids.

But we also remind parents about dealing with drinking, with how to handle the freedoms list,

driver's license, things like that.

So I hope that today as a first episode of Dr. Ken's Essentials will help kind of clear some of that up and kind of

provide the needed and focused information for all of you.

What are some good house rules about technology? How much time should my kids get on their devices?

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