Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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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.
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| 0:31.2 | So do you understand now that your teenager is not an old child, he and she are a young, they are a young adult. You should |
| 0:40.9 | think of a teenager as an adult in training. And your task is to move them on. Today on Focus |
| 0:48.0 | on the Family, we're continuing a great presentation about parenting preteens and teens |
| 0:53.1 | featuring Dr. Ken Wilgus. And your host is |
| 0:56.3 | focused president and author Jim Bailey. I'm John Fuller. This is really good stuff. Dr. Ken has |
| 1:02.3 | been talking about progressively giving more and more responsibility to your child and allowing |
| 1:07.8 | more freedom so that they can learn how to become competent adults while they're |
| 1:12.5 | still under your roof. Ken Wogis is a psychologist who specializes in adolescent behavior. |
| 1:18.8 | He's the author of the book Feeding the Mout That Bites You, a complete guide to parenting adolescents |
| 1:23.5 | and launching them into the world. And man, we cannot more highly recommend it. It's a wonderful |
| 1:30.4 | resource. And you can get a copy from us here when you get in touch. Let's go ahead and hear now |
| 1:35.8 | from Dr. Ken Wilgus speaking at an event sponsored by Christ's Church of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona, |
| 1:42.5 | on Focus on the Family. If you listen to my podcast, one of the episodes, I'm interviewing my own children. |
| 1:50.0 | Dangerous thing to do. They're like 30 and 20, no, late 20s. |
| 1:53.0 | And one of the questions I asked them was I said, |
| 1:56.0 | Now, as you know, I tell parents not to make speeches. |
| 1:59.0 | Did I ever make speeches? And all three of them went, yes, Dad, you gave speeches. |
| 2:04.6 | And so I'm grasping at straws, right? |
| 2:06.6 | So I'm like, okay, but were there at least some things in my speeches that were helpful? |
| 2:11.6 | And my middle girl, the sweet girl, said, and I quote, |
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