Episode 68: Slow down... creating margin and rest with teenagers

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

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As things slowly get back to normal after COVID, how can we keep our family life from being so frantic and busy all the time? This week we talk about encouraging rest and mindfulness in the lives of teenagers and ourselves. Even more importantly for Christian and Jewish listeners, a day of rest is one of God's foundational commandments for our lives! How can we teach Sabbath rest to teenagers who won't put down their phone?! 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 Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.
0:05.4	A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world. As always,
0:10.8	we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus. Hey, everyone and welcome back on today's
0:16.9	episode. We will be discussing creating margin, finding rest with teenagers.
0:23.5	Ashley, I don't know if there's any rest with teenagers, but I do know that this last year of
0:28.8	COVID has sort of forced us to lay low, a little lower than we were before as far as just
0:35.4	our activities and the things we were involved with, things shut down, maybe school shut down. Life just changed and got a lot slower.
0:44.2	Some of us are still experiencing a lot of closures. We still have a lot of things that we're
0:50.2	not able to do in our area. But you and I, Ashley, and Dr. Ken, too, are all in Texas.
0:55.2	And life is pretty normal for us.
0:57.1	We wear masks.
0:58.4	But that's about it.
1:00.4	For my kids, they're still back at school.
1:03.0	They're still in their activities.
1:04.9	After school, it hasn't slowed down a bit.
1:07.6	How about you, Ashley?
1:09.6	Yeah, we're pretty much back to normal. Kids have after
1:12.3	school activities. Kids are in school. My husband's working, all the jobs that he usually does.
1:18.3	And so, yeah, so we kind of look back at COVID time, slower time and miss those slower
1:27.2	schedules and rhythms.
1:30.6	But at the same time, it's fun to get back to normal things, but it's finding that balance.
1:35.6	And I know a lot of families struggled with this pre-COVID, this finding balance,
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