Kathryn Davis: Parenting and Teaching Teenagers

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kathryn Davis, host of the new Magnify podcast, does not claim to be an expert on teenagers but she does have a few teenagers of her own and she does teach a lot more in her seminary classes each day. She has also been involved for years with the EFY and now FSY programs, and even worked with Stephen Covey to help implement and train the "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" into her high school curriculum. In short, while Kathryn may not consider herself an expert, she has definitely spent enough time with teenagers to speak to what they are like and why she absolutely loves them.

1:30- An Unexpected Seminary Teacher

5:55- Tips For Teaching Teens

7:44- Isaiah

12:02- How To Connect

13:54- Kathryn's Kids

15:47- The Daunting Task of Parenting Teenagers

19:29- What Has Changed About Parenting Teens?

23:14- Do We Even Know What They're Up Against?

28:12- Bullying

33:05- Space For Conversations

37:10- Tough Questions in the Classroom

39:24- Enjoy Them

41:42- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

"Can we, as adults...and as members of the Church, embrace them and create a safe place for them where they are enough? Because them plus Christ is enough. We're not enough on our own but with Christ, we are."

Magnify Podcast- https://www.magnifythegood.com/podcast

President M. Russell Ballard quote- "Gone are the days when a student asked an honest question and a teacher responded, 'Don't worry about it!' Gone are the days when a student raised a sincere concern and a teacher bore his or her testimony as a response intended to avoid the issue. Gone are the days when students were protected from people who attacked the Church. Fortunately, the Lord provided this timely and timeless counsel to you teachers: 'And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.'"

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland quote- "And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow."

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0:00.0	Catherine Davis wants to make one thing very clear. She doesn't consider herself to be an expert on teenagers,
0:07.6	but she was gracious enough to agree to try to help me, a first-year seminary teacher floundering in Isaiah,
0:15.0	better understand a generation of kids that although not really that much younger than me,
0:20.2	sometimes seem like they are growing up in a completely different world.
0:24.2	So, I took full advantage of the chance to talk with someone who is not only a fourth-year seminary teacher,
0:31.2	but is also the mom of teenagers.
0:34.2	In addition to being a full-time seminary teacher, Catherine Davis is an EFY-slash-FSY speaker and session director.
0:43.2	She loves skiing, football, golf, and trail running with her dog London, who they got because she lost a bet with her daughter.
0:50.2	She previously taught high school English, German, and psychology, where she also worked with Steven Covey to help implement and train the seven habits of highly effective teens into her high school curriculum
1:03.2	and was a contributor on his book, The Six Events of the Restoration.
1:08.2	She is the host of the new magnified podcast.
1:12.2	This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In, the gospel of Jesus Christ?
1:24.2	I'm Morgan Pearson, and I am so honored to have Catherine Davis on the line with me today, Catherine, welcome.
1:30.2	Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.
1:33.2	Well, this is such a treat, and I have so enjoyed what I've heard of the magnified podcast so far and I'm excited for people to get to know you better through that.
1:45.2	But my hope in this episode is on magnify, you're not going to talk a lot about yourself.
1:51.2	And my hope is that we can kind of introduce people a little bit more to you and who you are, and they'll feel like they're listening to a friend even more when they listen.
2:01.2	So that's the hope.
2:03.2	Oh, well, that will be fun. Hopefully people can get to know me a little bit more. I'm kind of an open book.
2:10.2	Okay, perfect. So am I. So we'll get along just fine.
2:14.2	But I also, I have to tell listeners that I have like a little bit of like a selfish motive here.
2:19.2	And that is, I just got called to be a seminary teacher, which we just made this connection before we started this interview that
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