Equipping Your Child to Succeed in College
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In a recent study, only 8 percent of parents were confident their teen could schedule a doctor's appointment on their own. John and Danny discuss practical steps to prepare your kids to leave the house.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at focus on the family.com slash parenting podcast. There was a mom named Sarah who got a call from her daughter. She was away at college and her |
| 0:16.0 | daughter moaned over the phone, mom, I'm sick, what should I do? And Sarah just couldn't |
| 0:21.1 | believe that her daughter had called home when there were medical facilities and even a drug store just right down the street. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werther. He's a licensed clinical social worker and is vice president of the parenting department here at Focus on the Family and |
| 0:36.8 | Today we're going to be discussing how to make sure your teen is ready to succeed on their own and solve their own health issues. |
| 0:45.0 | We're going to hear a conversation from authors Michael Anderson and Dr. Timothy |
| 0:49.4 | Johanson. |
| 0:50.4 | Jim Daly and I talked about a good system they have to help prepare your child to leave the house. |
| 0:57.0 | In the book, Jess, do you give age appropriate two things to work on? |
| 1:01.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:02.0 | Is there connection there? So give us a snippet of that. You've got the |
| 1:05.3 | five-year-old loading the dishwasher. What should the 10-year-old be able to do? |
| 1:08.7 | Well, let's take a 15-year-old who is not getting his homework assignments in and not showing up at the time that he's supposed to be home in the evening, |
| 1:16.2 | 11 o'clock curfew. Those are two big things, but the parents should focus on those things and then forget about his room being clean, |
| 1:25.0 | forget him about, you know, vacuuming this or taking the garbage out. |
| 1:29.0 | And Mike has some great scripting that he's done with parents and what to say to your kid when you're |
| 1:36.1 | just working on two things. Mike, maybe you want to share that. |
| 1:38.7 | Well, yeah, one of the things that I found really troubling to me is how many kids even in their mid to late teens mom or dad are still waking them up in the morning. |
| 1:48.0 | So I tell parents it's really hard for your child at 17 to feel like a young man if he's still getting up the |
| 1:55.2 | same way he did when he was four. |
| 1:58.6 | And so one of the two things I suggest for them is that we're going to start next Monday. I always give them |
| 2:05.4 | tell the child a week from Monday or 10 days from now there's going to be a new |
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