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Someone observed that good boundaries don't restrict freedom. They help create it.

You may agree with that

until you have a teenager. And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Thanks for

joining us. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta. And we're going to hear now and watch Dr.

Ken Wilgus. He's a professional counselor and an expert at raising teens. He's been here before.

He's great. Let's go ahead and

listen in as he talks about boundaries with Focus President Jim Daly. Let's talk about some of those

boundaries that you outline in the book, just to help parents get a picture of what we're talking

about, the healthy boundaries that need to be there. What would be two or three examples of those?

So there's two kinds of boundaries.

The first thing we talk about is a freedoms list, and Jessica mentioned that with freedom always comes

responsibility.

So if you have the freedom to keep your room clean, your room is attached to my house so you

can't keep food there, they'll be a fine, you'll be doing your own laundry, those sort of

things. Freedom to listen to your own laundry, those sort of things. Freedom to

listen to your own music, which parents need to know a teenager is going to listen to the music

they want to. With or without your permission? Well, absolutely. So your control over that gets weaker.

But by announcing, you know what, that's between you and God. However, if I catch your sister, your little sister listening to it, you're going to lose your phone for a day. You need to be. So there's still responsibilities where that freedom doesn't spill out onto us. Oh, that's good. I like that. Yeah, and Ken, along those lines real quick, so what about the unexpected? In other words, I hear you saying prepare for and declare early ahead of what's

going to happen, but I can't plan for everything. Right. Well, so the freedoms is something that

you plan for in that it's something that we can let go of and the natural consequences aren't

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