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🗓️ 11 February 2025
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Conflict is one of the more challenging aspects of raising teenagers. Jodie Berndt and Jim Daly bring up how you can deal with conflict well when tensions are high with your teen. Plus, Danny and John share about the need for humility when communicating with your teenager.
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0:00.0 | If you've got teenagers, there's going to be conflict. It's just a given. And if that's you right now, listen in. We've got some hopeful insights for you. I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny, who's in charge of the parenting team here. And Danny, sometimes our teens might surprise us with the why behind a conflict. It's sort of like, are you |
0:22.4 | kidding me? That's right. Yeah, there's certainly disagreements that come up there. And sometimes |
0:26.5 | more so with certain teens than others. There's some that are much more opinionated, much more |
0:31.6 | strong will. Then you have some that are very compliant and real followers. You have a great |
0:35.9 | relationship with them. So it's not every teen. |
0:39.2 | And so I want to encourage a parent that has, maybe it's almost to the teen years and has a |
0:43.9 | good relationship with a teenager. It's not always a bad thing. And it's not always conflict all |
0:49.4 | the time. Yeah. Yeah. No, I love having teenagers. Oh, man, I have loved raising teenagers. But I |
0:54.0 | didn't remember a surprise for me was with, with my daughter Lexi in her teen years when she began to, to change her clothing type of decisions. And it was based off of wanting to be a part, belong, right? With her peers. And, man, I didn't know, I was not |
1:15.3 | planning on that happening. She was the girl that at third, fourth grade, fifth grade. She would |
1:19.7 | just dress however she wanted to. There were a couple times where mismatched and she looked |
1:25.0 | great, mismatched. And I was going, man, it's cute. She's just doing her own thing. In high school, she looked great, mismatched. And I was going, it's cute. She's just doing her own thing. |
1:28.3 | Yeah. In, in high school, she started to, uh, to go shopping and, and wanted to, uh, wear clothes that were |
1:36.8 | more trendy. And, uh, I said, hey, honey, you're, you're, you're communicating something by the way |
1:42.7 | and they were immodestly trendy. |
1:45.1 | Well, they weren't, they weren't fully immodestly, but they were getting close to that. |
1:49.9 | And so we were going shopping and I could tell it was hard to choose certain clothing. |
1:55.4 | So I'd say, hey, what about this one? |
1:56.6 | And we started to go back and forth on the conversation of what would be modest and what's not. |
2:04.2 | And how do you come up with that? |
2:05.4 | You know, those are great questions. |
2:06.5 | She said, well, how do we know that right above the knee is or this many inches? |
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