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As your child ages, your relationship with them changes a bit.

There's a constant guidance that you're offering, but it has to change, especially as

the enter the teen years. And giving rules is easy, but it may not be the best approach.

Conversely, not having rules might seem like it's easy, just make the decision, but our kids

do need some guidance. So how do we make sense of all that?

Well, that's what Dr. Danny Werta's here for. He's going to just shine the light on all of this.

And we'll get to Danny in just a minute. But first, we're in here from a conversation that

Focus President Jim Daly had with Kerry Kempakas on that transition from being kind of the guardian protector to the

friend of your team. Let me ask you about the buddy parent and the danger of the buddy parent,

because I kind of lean in that direction. So when I was reading that, okay, I'm a little guilty

there. You know, you want, especially for the latter teenage years, you do need to move into that

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