Episode 4: Social Media

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

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Join us as we discuss the role of social media in the lives of our teens, the positive and negative effects and how to guide our teens to use this tool in a healthy and beneficial way. Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Join us on Patreon for bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/FeedingTheMouthThatBitesYou

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0:00.0	You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bight You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.
0:05.6	A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:10.0	As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:15.1	Hey, everyone, and thank you for joining us again on the podcast Feeding the Mouth That Bighted You.
0:20.9	As always, I am joined by my co-host, Jessica.
0:24.6	Hi.
0:25.3	And Dr. Ken Wilgis.
0:26.6	Hey, everybody.
0:27.8	On today's episode, we are covering the topic of social media.
0:32.1	This one is going to be juicy.
0:34.1	Jessica, can you go ahead and start out and just define social media for us as we're going to
0:39.1	talk about it on today's podcast? Sure. I guess my definition is just based on the apps that my kids
0:44.1	have. The things that they use on their phones, I'd say it's texting and Snapchat, WhatsApp, Instagram,
0:51.2	FaceTime. I know there are a lot of other apps out there that are more like games
0:54.6	where people can converse with friends or even strangers online. It's just the way that our kids are
1:00.1	communicating these days. You know, we do less face to face and more online. And so it's just the way
1:05.7	that the kids are connecting with each other with strangers, with parents. Right. Yeah. Right. Well,
1:10.7	my oldest has social media and she is of the younger, you know, because she's 13.
1:17.2	And I asked her recently, knowing that this podcast was coming up about her friends.
1:21.5	And how many of her friends had social media and kind of what their rules were about it?
1:26.7	And she shared with me this one story about a girlfriend of hers that is not allowed to have
1:32.0	social media because her family knows of a family whose daughter committed suicide.
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