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Focus on Parenting Podcast

Guarding Your Teen with Boundaries

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Teens are under so much pressure these days. Whether it's learning to drive or them resisting sexual temptation, how can you help as a parent? Jodie Berndt talks with Jim Daly on ways she learned to pray for her kids in the teen years. Then, John and Danny bring up how to help your teenager if they're struggling with pornography.

 

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0:00.0

Well, teens are under so much pressure these days, and they learn so much, so fast.

0:08.0

But one thing that doesn't seem to happen fast is learning boundaries.

0:12.0

I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny Werthe, who heads up our parenting team.

0:16.0

And we're going to kick off this episode with a conversation that focused President Jim Daly had with Jody Burnt, as they discussed driving and sexual temptation.

0:26.6

Let's go to one of the root moments in raising teenagers, driving the car, teaching them to drive the car.

0:33.7

I mean, everybody's got a funny story on this one.

0:36.0

But how about you and Robbie? How did that work

0:38.4

out in your household? Who had control? Well, hopefully the Lord. Yeah, I remember when our eldest

0:46.4

Hillary began to drive one of her classmates who thought of her as somewhat scatterbrained or whatever.

0:52.6

He gave her, he said, I'll bet you $20 that you can't go, you know, the first week or the

0:59.6

first month without an accident, without hitting at least a mailbox.

1:03.7

There's a challenge.

1:04.6

Yeah.

1:05.0

And you know what?

1:05.6

I was so grateful to that kid because she wouldn't have done it for me, but she did it for him.

1:09.0

She took that bet and was super careful. And at the end of the month, I think I thought, I want to slip the guy another 20 and say,

1:14.0

see if she'll go double or nothing. That's a whole other topic. Oh, exactly. Exactly. But, you know,

1:19.6

that is an area where, what is it, Psalm 91? They say it's a lot of times it's the soldier's psalm, the one that talks about angelic protection. I think I prayed verses from that.

1:28.4

God, give your angels charge over Hillary, guard her in all her ways, especially as she's behind the wheel.

1:34.3

I remember when Troy got his permit, you know, and he could drive. And we got back from the DMV,

1:40.1

and we go into the house. I said, do you want to just go drive the car in the neighborhood?

1:44.4

He's like, can I?

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