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.

Hey, Dr. Ken, what's on your lip?

Cynthia.

Stop.

I just told her.

So people that are listening, I just turned on the camera, which is always disappointing

when I see me.

And I got this dot on my lip, which I wouldn't even care, but I have grandchildren.

And those of you with grandchildren and little kids, they always go, what is that? What is? And then they show me a microscopic something on their finger and tell me the story of a Band-Aid. And I'm like, okay, you know, so I'm just picturing what my grandchildren will say. Well, I just wanted to go ahead and set you up for what

might be coming your way because you mentioned you were feeling a little insecure about it. So I thought

we might as well bring it up. Hey, we're going to get into our topic, which I think is a great one,

especially in light of the morning I just had over here. But I wanted to tell you something that I think

you already know, but I was news to me. I went to Texas A&M

University this last weekend because my son is a freshman there. One of my kids goes there. And I have,

as you know, had a daughter in college. I learned something about boys from going to like a parents

weekend. Are you ready? I'm ready. They're terrible hosts.

No, that's actually very true. Why do you think that is, Cynthia? He was clearly raised poorly.

I mean, I think there was excellent. Apparently, I never told said, son, when you're at a tailgate with

your parents and all these people and your

parents are ready to go to the game and they said, oh wait, let me find my son.

And there everyone's like, oh, he left for the game 20 minutes ago.

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