So much of success in life is a result of really good preparation and we're going to

encourage you today to help your child prepare for the teen years.

I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny Huerta who heads up the focus

on the family parenting department. Danny when did you start having conversations

with your kids about what you knew was around the corner, those pre-teen and teen years.

Yeah, I'd say fairly early on, but I mean, mainly between the ages of 10 to 12, just in preparation

because it was so close and they were seeing other kids or teenagers

so it made sense within that context.

But I remember at eight or nine some moments about the teen years coming up in our conversations and we discuss the need to build

trust in anticipation of big responsibilities.

That was our big thread conversation.

Say that again. So we discuss the need to build our big

conversation.

our big responsibility, our big responsibilities as they became teens.

So now when you're 7-8-9 you don't get it but we're building

it's where we're building. That's where we're as we're interacting as we're

giving you certain responsibilities you're building trust and in anticipation of dating, of driving a car, of having a phone at 16 plus, knowing

that that's the line we're looking at, depending how we've built trust because it's so foundational

to relationship and to good decision-making and uh... they have fantastic conversations though about some of the fun things that they were

seeing as potential things that would happen in the teen years and I'd love to just

sit and listen and I knew that someday they'd see a different picture

as the teen years came up. Yeah, have fun as you begin talking about the

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