Episode 86: Divorce, Blended Families And The Holidays With Teens

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

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Just in time for the holidays, we talk about parenting teenagers in divorced and blended families during the holidays. How can newly divorced parents deal with the grief of the holidays? What about blended families? Managing teenagers is (you guessed it) not the same as dealing with children. 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.
0:05.6	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.
0:14.7	Hey, everyone and welcome back.
0:16.4	Today's episode will be discussing divorce, blended families, and holidays.
0:22.6	That's a lot.
0:23.8	It is.
0:24.2	It's a lot of things.
0:26.8	We've touched on a few of these subjects already, kind of individually.
0:30.4	We talked about teenagers and the holidays in episode 51.
0:34.4	We talked about divorce and teenagers in episode 26 and then teenagers and blended
0:39.0	families in episode 32. But because it's the holidays, there are some wonderful,
0:44.3	joyful moments in the holidays and there are some years that the holidays can be really
0:48.0	tough. And we know that it may be your first holiday or your first season as a divorcee or maybe it may be your first season in a separation where your kids might be going to be with your ex or soon to be X.
1:04.4	So we wanted to address some issues that might be coming up as the holidays approach to make sure that you're well equipped to handle things
1:13.4	that involve teenagers and divorce.
1:17.1	Yeah.
1:18.0	Well, to divide this up and make it simpler to understand, Dr. Ken, let's first talk about
1:24.1	single parents.
1:25.8	So this is after the divorce and we're talking about single
1:30.1	parents raising teenagers and the holidays are coming up. Yeah. What are some struggles that you see
1:35.8	or some, um, some things that you see that can kind of be hard during this time of year.
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