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Freeing Your Adolescents to Step Into Adulthood - Ages and Stages - Teens :: Dr. Ken Wilgus [Ep 382]

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s been pointed out that if you want to make anything scary or negative, put “teenage” in front of it. For example, teenage driving, teenage parties, teenage sex, teenage thinking. 

One of our main jobs as parents is to help our kids grow into functioning adults who make their own decisions. In order to do that, we have to give our kids freedoms to practice making their own decisions in meaningful ways. 

Dr. Ken Wilgus is a father, author, and licensed psychologist with many years of helping parents and young adults navigate the teen years. He tells us that our teens want to know they can actually grow up in our house - to begin experiencing the freedom (and responsibility) of being an adult while still under our care. Though he isn’t promising us an easy ride, Dr. Wilgus encourages us that if we do that it will actually foster more attachment and connection with our teenagers. 

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.4

I'm your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I get to walk alongside

0:14.8

you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:20.4

And in this episode number 382, we are wrapping up our ages and stages series with a guest

0:28.6

I've been wanting to have on the show for a long time.

0:32.4

Dr. Ken Wilgis to talk about teens.

0:36.8

This is the main message I think for concerned Christian parents, is you need to give your

0:41.1

young adult the message.

0:42.8

You can grow up here in this house, you do not have to get away.

0:46.2

There's just so many you know, Christians, young people that felt like the only way I was

0:52.1

going to reach the essential stage of adulthood is to get away and we don't want that.

0:58.5

Dr. Ken or Ken is the author of the book feeding the mouth that bites you.

1:04.2

Such a great title and it was through his work as a licensed psychologist for many years.

1:11.0

Helping parents and young adults navigate what we call the teen years and he discovered

1:16.6

really the word teenager wasn't a thing until 1941.

1:21.6

And so how do we start helping our young adults navigate freedom and learn responsibility

1:29.0

and move into adulthood while still under our care.

1:31.7

He has a great framework for this.

1:33.8

I am so excited to finally share it with you and point you to his book and his podcast.

1:40.2

Before we get into the episode though, I also want to invite you into something really

1:43.6

exciting.

1:44.6

I am passionate that moms do not mom alone and in the teen years that is hard.

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