Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

I'm Cynthia Yanov, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Cynthia, how are you doing?

I'm good.

I'm real good.

Are we going to address the elephant in the room about my parenting from the other day?

And let's just preface us by saying, kids, bless it.

And this time I really do mean kids, not teens um i was with a bunch of friends

and my daughter called and said hey you need to make sure and get jb off your phone he's texting

which is my youngest jb oh yes and um and i didn't think much about it but he wasn't with me

so he didn't have my phone.

Apparently, he had my iPad.

He's with his dad, which is also my husband.

He sent me a sweet text, actually.

And then I go back and look.

Not only is he just texting away, he's audio texting.

And of all the people, do you have to audio text the parenting expert?

Come on.

That's going to make me look bad.

I mean, apparently he's just willy-nilly walking around with an iPad, no supervision, all the things.

But you did get to hear some good audio text.

I think he said he loved me or something.

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