Making the Teen Years Count
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In our culture, the teen years are often treated as an extension of childhood. John and Danny discuss practical steps to prepare your teen for adulthood. Receive the book Feeding the Mouth that Bites You with your gift of any amount!
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.7 | Focus on the Family.com. |
| 0:08.6 | slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | I've heard that the term teenager is relatively new and for a long time you were either |
| 0:16.3 | a child or an adult but somewhere maybe a hundred years ago that teen years emerged as some sort of bridge between childhood and |
| 0:26.2 | adulthood. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta. |
| 0:29.3 | He's the head of parenting and youth here at Focus and Danny today the teen years are often treated |
| 0:35.2 | kind of as an extension of childhood. How should we be viewing those two years? |
| 0:41.6 | You're absolutely right John it's It's viewed as this is your last |
| 0:45.3 | hurrah, get it all out before you become an adult, rather than a preparation for |
| 0:50.0 | adulthood and you can still have fun along the way. |
| 0:53.0 | Adult years are, it can be fun. |
| 0:55.4 | And so really this is a time of practicing and failing well. |
| 0:59.8 | And that means failing and then adjusting, talking about it. |
| 1:04.3 | And really it's about a lot of instruction and coaching and giving freedoms and maybe pulling |
| 1:12.2 | back freedoms for a little while. |
| 1:14.1 | It's helping kids learn and it's all about growth |
| 1:17.8 | with added freedoms. |
| 1:19.5 | They're not going all out. |
| 1:21.0 | You have all the freedom in the world it's practicing towards that in an |
| 1:26.8 | earning of trust as they get to 18 19 20 where they can be confident in the places they'll be as young adults. |
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