Episode 92: The Way They're Wired: Understanding Temperaments In 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

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week we talk about understanding your teenager's temperament. What are basic temperaments and how much can you expect your adolescent to change these basic characteristics? Why is it especially hard when your teenagers has the same temperament struggles that their parents have? 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, we are joined by
0:11.5	psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus. Hey, everyone and welcome back on today's episode. We'll be discussing
0:18.3	temperaments and teenagers. Yes, we will. Did I say that right?
0:22.7	It's kind of loaded. It is. But before we get started, I have a question from a listener.
0:28.1	Hashtag asking for a friend. From a friend. So it is like spring semester. And I feel like every new year for the first couple months, there's tons of youth events.
0:43.2	Like there's youth conferences and a weekend here, a trip over there.
0:49.1	Like there's so many really great opportunities for our teens to go to these different youth events.
0:55.8	Yeah.
0:57.0	Are we obligated to send them to all of them?
1:00.0	How do we discern which one's most important?
1:02.6	I mean, they're wanting to do something fun and good.
1:04.9	They're with the youth of the church, right?
1:06.6	Like, they're going to learn about God.
1:08.1	But like, how do we?
1:09.9	You know, and of course the spring we're in
1:11.9	coming up on now, we may very well have a natural relief to that because there'll be fewer
1:19.4	conferences thanks to COVID. And so it may be that for the next few months, easier than usual to
1:26.2	you know, say yes to whatever isn't canceled.
1:30.2	That may be good. But your question, it happened, you're right. It happens, especially in the
1:34.6	spring. You know, I think it probably depends on the early adolescence or late adolescence.
1:40.8	So with no matter what the adolescence is, the answer of why can't I make
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