Episode 226: The Case for Earlier Marriage (and why parents panic)

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

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today we’re talking marriage with Dr. Ken Wilgus — not our marriages (although we detoured there), but our kids’ future ones.

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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.
0:15.4	I'm Cynthia Yanov, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:20.8	Hey, Dr. Ken, how's it going over there?
0:22.9	It's going well.
0:24.1	How are you?
0:25.3	Good, good, good.
0:26.8	We just had fall break over here.
0:29.6	And so my youngest, who's in elementary school, was out for an entire week.
0:34.1	And I thought we just started school, but apparently we didn't because we needed a break, which is fine.
0:38.8	But today, you and I are talking about the case you want to make for earlier marriage.
0:45.7	And I wanted to make a case for older parenting based on fall break.
0:51.0	Are you ready?
0:52.0	Okay.
0:52.6	All right.
0:53.0	Make your case.
0:54.0	Okay. Now, nobody in their 50s has a
0:56.4	nine-year-old but me pretty much. But here's what I figured out. I was my best parenting self,
1:01.8	because we went to SeaWorld. And the things you'll do in your 50s that you would never do
1:05.8	parenting in your 30s and 40s. Here's my example. I'm no longer going to ride those big rides. I thought SeaWorld
1:12.9	we were going to look at the Orcas. I thought we were going to like see the sea otters. And we did.
1:19.6	But then they went in and put all these huge roller coasters in. Well, my 50 year old self has passed
1:25.2	the day where I can ride those and still drive the child
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