Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ken Wilgus encourages parents to deliberately work their way out of the parenting role by the time their child is 18, and instructs them to see their teenagers as young adults, not large children. He offers tips on how to progressively give your teen more responsibility, along with examples of how to have difficult conversations on a range of topics, from music choices to dating. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | The trail was the biggest, I think, feeling at that moment. |
| 0:05.0 | And just, you know, this belief that that could be going on in my home and in my marriage. |
| 0:13.0 | When Jenny discovered her husband's emotional affair, she was devastated. |
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| 0:29.0 | Two lives that's been broken. |
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| 0:37.0 | I'm Jim Daley. |
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| 1:00.0 | I call it planned emancipation. |
| 1:04.0 | Planned emancipation is you taking the reins and marshalling an orderly retreat out of your teenager's lives. |
| 1:14.0 | If you've got teens or preteens, stay tuned because we have a plan for successful parenting that you won't want to miss. |
| 1:21.0 | Your host is focus president and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, John, you and I survived the teen years with our kids. |
| 1:29.0 | And although it's a tumultuous time, it's also a great time to be training them for adult life and all of the responsibilities that come with it. |
| 1:38.0 | And today's guest, Dr. Ken Wilgis, offers a very firm yet friendly strategy that I think our listeners are going to want to embrace. |
| 1:47.0 | Dr. Ken is a psychologist, author and speaker who specializes in adolescent behavior and he has a private practice in Dallas, Texas. |
| 1:56.0 | His book is called Feeding the Mouth that Byte You. |
| 1:59.0 | And he's been in the studio with us a couple of times in the past. |
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