You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone, and welcome back.

On today's episode, we will be discussing teenage brains separating myth from fact.

I'm your host, Ashley Parrish.

I'm joined by my co-host Jessica Pfeiffer.

Hi there.

And Dr. Ken Wilkes.

Okay, I have a question.

Ever since you guys roped me into this podcast thingy, I have heard such cool feedback. Like there was a dad in my office a couple

weeks ago who asks parents that he knows that have teenagers, have you heard this podcast feeding

the mouth that bites you? And he told me that if they haven't, he says, give me your phone.

And he signs them up. He subscribesbes them right there so it's all very cool

that's great but i just looked at this ratings thing how come we don't have more rating what does

it take to just put a five star rating on that is it hard to do what do you do you just

i think you just click the stars. Oh. Bad stars. We'd love that. You'd love that.

Okay. I'm really excited about today's episode two, separating myth from fact, because I know that as I venture into this

adolescent rearing, that I need help in this area from separating myth from

fact because, you know, thinking about growing up, I never remember parents talking about

science so much. But when I became a parent, I see science-based facts everywhere. And the science says this

and science says that. And early on, just having little ones, babies, the pressure that the first

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