Episode 216: End Of Season 5 And Time For Summer Break!

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Well it's that time again. School's out for a lot of you and Jessica and Dr. Ken are breaking for the summer. We leave with a few reminders for summer with teenagers. Hint: it has to do with those stupid phones. If you have time, drop us a line this summer with questions or further thoughts on topics you want to hear on "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You." Your feedback really helps. Thanks to you all who have made "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You" among the top parenting teens podcasts. If you have a minute, please leave us a review. We love hearing listeners encouraging other listeners. You can order Dr. Ken's book "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You" here: https://a.co/d/hBnlbzI Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Music provided by the great John David Kent - https://www.johndavidkent.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:15.2	I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:20.7	Hey, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:21.8	Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:22.9	Hey, Jessica.
0:24.6	Why are you wearing a beach hat?
0:26.1	Is that sunglasses?
0:27.1	What are you doing?
0:27.8	Yes.
0:29.9	I am getting ready for summer.
0:33.0	This is the last week of school for my kids. So I know a lot of other parents are, are we happy?
0:36.5	Are we sad about it?
0:37.2	We don't know. There's days that I'm happy about it and days that I'm sad. So this year, I have a college student home with me this summer. And I'm excited and looking forward to having time with her. I have a high school senior that's graduating. So that's it for us. We're going to be, we're going to be sending. Wow. Is that why you have Kleenex in your
0:56.1	hand? Is that what that's about? Yes, full of emotion. And then I have a daughter that's heading into
1:01.4	high school. So that's a new, a new school next year. It'd be great. You're seeing the runway here.
1:08.2	The landing. It's still a ways. still a ways. You're fine. Yes,
1:12.1	yes. But there are a lot of changes that come with summer. And I know every year we kind of
1:15.9	have a little send off for summer because we do take summer off for recording for the most part.
1:22.1	And so we leave our listeners for a little bit. But part of it is because we want to be,
1:26.6	well, I want to be
1:27.8	really intentional with my time with my kids in the summers. You know, that sometimes involves
1:32.5	traveling, but a lot of it, too, I just want to be able to be available to them and make
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