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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.

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Hey, Ashley, I'm excited about today's episode because I think it's going to be extremely helpful to a good portion of parents. I think this is a common issue that we touched on

earlier in episode 31. We've talked about fear, anxiety, and panic. And we kind of covered all of those topics. But today,

we're going to focus in on social anxiety. Yeah, you know, I think I've just, I've acquired,

I'm kind of excited about this. You know, I've reached that point in my career where I'm,

I'm always going, didn't we already do this? I think I've already talked.

You know, I've talked about this a thousand times with parents. So I think surely it's already out there. But, you know, I think the discussion of fear, anxiety and panic was a good one on a

general basis. But I've really been preparing for this. I've been reminded that social anxiety

is a specific topic that I think

is worth kind of setting aside and really focusing on that specifically. So yeah, I've become

interested in the topic. I started with a bad attitude, but I'm okay. Dr. Ken, I'm sure you're

always saying to yourself, did I already tell you this?

I say that all the time.

I think that's what old people do.

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