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Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Episode 227: Raising Teens in the Age of AI

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

4.9714 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today, Dr. Ken and Cynthia talk about how AI is shaping the world our teens are growing up in. From homework help to “AI friends” and therapy bots, this technology is moving fast — and our kids are encountering it whether we feel ready or not.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:15.3

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

0:20.8

All right, Dr. Ken, how are we doing?

0:22.7

I'm good.

0:23.4

How about you?

0:24.3

Going well over here.

0:26.3

All right.

0:26.7

So I feel like as parents, it's always this balancing act of figuring out what the next thing is.

0:30.7

And so I figured out Fortnite and, you know, TikTok and some of those things.

0:34.2

And now we have AI.

0:36.6

And I'll have you know that they gave me an email address in law school.

0:41.9

And I literally laughed.

0:43.5

And I was like, who is possibly going to use email?

0:47.7

And here we are with AI, right?

0:50.6

Let me go one step older than you.

0:52.5

I remember at the hospital in Chicago, I was doing my internship,

0:57.6

and the psychiatry residents, not the psychology interns, got beepers.

1:03.6

And that was so cool when it would all be in grand rounds.

1:06.2

And the cool people got paged during it.

1:10.0

And I thought, man, that's the new wave of

1:13.6

of electronics the old beepers man they're cutting edge in their day yeah

1:19.0

unbelievable um so let's just start we're gonna talk about AI and let's start with

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