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Focus on Parenting Podcast

Giving Up Control of Your Teen

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How has it felt as you've learned to let go and allow your teenager to make their own choices? John asks Danny that very question. Also, Jim Daly and Jodie Berndt will encourage you to pray and work through challenges with your teen.

 

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0:00.0

One of the greatest gifts God has given us is the ability to make choices.

0:06.3

It can be a kind of a freezing kind of thing at times, but we want to make choices.

0:11.1

And in every way, a parent has to go through the process of letting go of our children and

0:17.5

letting them make their own choices.

0:20.4

I'm John Fuller, and that's our topic today. I'm joined by Dr. Danny Werta. He's in charge of our children and letting them make their own choices. I'm John Fuller, and that's our topic today.

0:22.4

I'm joined by Dr. Danny Werta.

0:24.0

He's in charge of our focus on the family parenting team,

0:27.0

although you do give the team choices about what they do and free will.

0:30.6

Danny, what was it like letting go of the control aspects for your own two kids

0:36.9

and kind of saying, okay, you've got this.

0:39.8

You make this choice.

0:41.6

Yeah, I mean, it was, it was interesting.

0:43.2

It was tough, especially at the younger years.

0:46.3

Later on, 16, 17, 18, it was easier.

0:50.8

It would seem like it's harder then.

0:52.7

But what I hear you saying is you started way before 16, 17, 18.

0:56.7

Yeah, I did.

0:57.6

And it was tricky to give some of that.

0:59.6

Now, it's interesting to think about, John, that every day we make about 35,000 decisions.

1:04.9

That's what they've calculated.

1:05.9

Really?

1:06.3

That's what they've calculated.

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