Episode 218: Teens That Can't Wait To Leave And Teens Who Never Leave

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

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk about teenagers who seem very eager to grow up and those who seem to fear adulthood. How should parents handle those differences? Is this a temperament thing? Are they afraid to leave us? Isn't it a good thing if our adolescents feel like they want to hang with us all the time? We cover this and much more. Did you even know we have an Instagram account? Dr. Ken didn't! Plus Dr. Ken and Cynthia decide on a "safe word" if Cynthia goes off the rails! 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] or check us out on Instagram! 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 Abit You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:15.5	I'm Cynthia Yanov, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:21.6	Well, it's week number one.
0:24.9	Are you nervous?
0:26.3	I'm not nervous.
0:28.1	I'm kind of excited.
0:29.1	It's just so different.
0:30.8	Hi, Cynthia.
0:32.3	Well, hello.
0:33.5	Do we need a, I was thinking of this day.
0:35.1	Do we need a, do we need like a secret word? Like there's that maybe four Christmases and I don't know if you ever saw it, but when the guy, if anybody wanted to leave one of the Christmases, he or his wife or his fiance or whatever she was, they would say mistletoe. And that was kind of like. You're starting with a safe word? You think we need a safe word? You might, is there, you need a safe word if I go off the
0:55.5	rails or if I'm like, that's not how it works. Or when I refer to kids instead of teens, like, should you have a safe word to be able to be like, oh, we got to pull the plug fast? Yeah, okay, between you and me, I'll say, Cynthia, you're way off the rails. That'll be our signal that you're off the rails.
1:11.2	Let's try that.
1:13.1	And so that, that, way off the rails. That'll be our signal that you're off the rails. Let's try that.
1:13.1	And so that, that, we're not betting people, but if we were, boy, you can put some odds on how
1:18.6	often that's going to happen, which is probably a lot. That's not true. Glad to be here. Thank you.
1:24.6	It's so great. It's wild that we're doing this. I know, right? Okay, remember that
1:30.2	movie. I'm on a movie kick day, apparently, failure to launch. Did you ever see failure to launch?
1:34.9	Of course I did. Not for the reasons you did. You just wanted to see Matthew McConaughey with a shirt
1:39.9	off, but I've watched it for its title.
1:45.8	Yeah, you're not totally wrong.
1:46.2	But yeah.
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