Parenting Teens: Navigating Opportunities For Responsibility And Independence
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Anyone who has been a parent of a teen for ten minutes knows it can come with a whole lot of goodness, but also some tension, especially as we prepare to launch them. That brings a requirement that we give them opportunities to fail so they have a soft landing with us. Going to public school so they can play sports, getting a job at an early age, having a cell phone… all of these are opportunities for success or failure, and the answer isn’t the same for each child. Listen in today as I talk through some ways you can approach these situations with your teen.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you a parent who is struggling to navigate between helping your kids find independence |
| 0:04.9 | and making sure they learn responsibility? I want to be talking a little bit about this today |
| 0:09.2 | as we come into a new year and a lot of parents are struggling to navigate the tension during the teen years. |
| 0:15.7 | If that's you or someone you know, stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. I'm glad you guys are here today and that you've joined me right here at the intersection of faith and |
| 0:34.7 | culture. My name is Heidi St. John and this is the off-the-bench podcast. I hope you guys are |
| 0:39.7 | enjoying the Christmas season. I know for many of you, we talk about, |
| 0:43.8 | hey, this is the most wonderful time of the year, |
| 0:45.5 | but the truth is, everybody's really busy. |
| 0:47.7 | And I was just talking to some of my staffers here |
| 0:49.9 | about what it means to be intentional in relationship with our children this time of year with all of the |
| 0:55.6 | pressures, the Christmas cantatas, the cookie baking, you know, 400 Christmas letters and all the things. |
| 1:01.2 | Speaking though of Christmas letters, I have to tell you guys I am |
| 1:05.2 | loving getting your Christmas cards in the mail. Our staff really loves it. |
| 1:09.1 | Those are going up on the wall around here and people are really being blessed by it so keep those |
| 1:13.9 | coming you can write to me Heidi St John Care firmly planted family at 1 4001 |
| 1:20.1 | southeast 1st Street, Vancouver, Washington, 98684. |
| 1:25.0 | If you guys are interested in finding out what we're doing to encourage families, |
| 1:30.0 | you can go to friendly planted family.org. |
| 1:32.0 | Hope you guys will check that out |
| 1:33.8 | and get get ready because for this next year we are going to be |
| 1:38.8 | studying right out of the bat the book of. And if you are a woman or a teenager, teenage woman listening to this, |
| 1:46.4 | we would love to have you join us. You can do that at faith that speaks.com. |
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