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Okay, news flash, it is not the end of the world if your child likes a certain unflattering

haircut or listens to electronic music that drives you crazy. These are not the big battles that you want to have a fight over.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta who heads up our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family.

And we're going to talk a little bit more about some of the battles that you do want to pick

with your teen. We'll start by hearing a conversation featuring Dr. David Clark.

He's an author and licensed psychologist, and he talked with

focused president Jim Daly and me about responding to teenage rebellion.

Let me ask you, you mentioned something, I'm sure some caught and may have even

Flinched when it comes to a teenager needing to rebel or a child needing to rebel for them to find out who they are and

discuss.

Unpack that a little bit because I the prodigal story is probably a good example of

that but describe why that's important again for disconnection.

Because most parents, we would want our child to just be perfect.

You know, they get great grades, they're polite,

they always go to the functions we want them to go to without complaining and they just you know they toe the line

It's not going to be like that typically and maybe if it is like that you're you're maybe setting up for something down the road that's far worse.

But why is appropriate rebellion something that a parent should actually encourage?

Well, it gets it out of their system.

If you accept my premise and you should,

because I know what I'm talking about,

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