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 Wilkes. Hey, everyone and welcome back on today's

episode. We're talking about getting serious about planned emancipation.

So, Ashley, I know that life is full and busy. And sometimes planned

emancipation can feel like one more thing we're supposed to do with our kids, like some

sort of a technique that we're supposed to be doing with our kids. And it can get confusing

and it can get frustrating.

And we have different personalities and different ways of parenting than maybe our spouse.

And so these added complications can make planned emancipation completely ineffective or only halfway effective at times. And I think Dr. Ken has a lot to say about it this morning.

Is that because I've been talking already a whole lot? I understand. Yeah, I get pretty passionate.

You know, I talk with parents. I've said this before. Bad parents don't come see me. I mean,

it's not free to come see me.

And so I see a lot of good folks.

And the reason I wanted to talk about this is because I also see a lot of good parents that are,

they're doing feeding them out that bite you stuff.

And yet, there are some pretty common mistakes that you may, or just,

just things like, I want to like, wait a minute, back up, do this more seriously for it to

really be effective. So that's where I get kind of a bee in my bonnet is about the, and I'll be

totally honest, very often i'm talking to

a good nurturing mother who is likes it gets it and yet still struggling with that it feels wrong thing

and so there are ways just like you said jessica to kind of do this and yet it doesn't have the

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