Parenting teenagers with Dr. Ken Wilgus
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
I’m glad you’re joining us this year on Pardon the Mess as we’re dusting off some areas in life that may need a refresh in 2021. We’re talking about improvements to be made in our spiritual lives, parenting, health, and finances.
This week, licensed psychologist Ken Wilgus is talking with us about parenting teens. If you don’t have a teen yet, no worries, because you can never prepare too early for navigating the treacherous waters of adolescence (just kidding—kind of).
Dr. Wilgus shares his ideas behind “planned emancipation,” the strategy of preparing our kids for adulthood by carefully and progressively letting go of our control in key areas of their lives.
We talk about this in the context of giving freedom in the music they listen to, the friends they pick, and even the state in which they keep their rooms.
Brace yourself, it’s going to take a little bit of moxie to make it through some of this!
As a mother of two teens, I can report firsthand that Dr. Wilgus has a great recipe for helping us raise kids who are prepared for adulthood without driving ourselves (and them) crazy in the process.
Glad you’re with us today!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting |
| 0:02.0 | This is Cynthia Yannoff and you're listening to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:16.0 | Each week we have honest discussions about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. |
| 0:22.6 | It's real, it's fun, and it's biblical. |
| 0:24.6 | Life is messy. |
| 0:25.6 | Don't walk the parenting road alone. |
| 0:31.6 | Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. |
| 0:34.6 | As you know, it is January, and we are looking at areas of our life where we can make adjustments. We can freshen up. We can tweak some things in the new year. And so last week, we had Louis Giglio talking about spiritual aspects of our life. This week, we have Ken Wilgus speaking into our parenting and discipline and adolescence teens. So I'll get to that in one minute. |
| 0:55.4 | But before we get there, I'm really excited about a new project that I just released this week. |
| 1:00.7 | And it's called Noteworthy Kids, 50 encouraging notes every child needs to receive. |
| 1:06.1 | And the gist of it is I've written a notepad of 50 notes that you tear out depending on what's going on in |
| 1:12.9 | your kiddo's life. It's just a word of encouragement. There's a place for you to write your own |
| 1:17.0 | personal note on the back, but there's cards that say things like you do you. And it's just a |
| 1:21.6 | reminder to encourage our kids that they were designed uniquely and just to live how God |
| 1:26.2 | created you to. There's another one that |
| 1:27.8 | talks about dealing with the what ifs. That's the doubts in their life. There's one talking about |
| 1:32.1 | remembering your why. Why is that we do things the way we do them in our house? An encouraging note, |
| 1:37.3 | I know you did your best. That's a note for when maybe your kids didn't make the team or they |
| 1:42.1 | just didn't have a success. There's 50 different notes that I've |
| 1:45.4 | written, just encouraging our kids biblically. And I know after 2020, we could all use |
| 1:51.2 | encouragement. Our kids are the same way. So I would love for you to grab a copy of these for |
| 1:56.0 | your family, for your kids. You can put them in their backpack, lunchbox, somehow send them to school, |
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