Welcome to the Intentional Parents podcast. Intentional exists to help parents in their

God-given task to raise passionate Jesus followers. We exist to bring hope, help, and healing

to families. Each week we will talk about anything from parenting, marriage, lifestyle,

and what it looks like to follow Jesus in our time. Intentional is made up of Phil and

Ian Comer and Brooke and Elizabeth Moser. I am Brooke, and the funny thing is, we are

all family. Elizabeth is Phil and Ian's daughter, so we're a family, figuring this thing

out together. We hope this podcast feels like you're sitting with us in our home, talking

about how to do this thing called life together. Elizabeth and I are your hosts. Let's get

into this week's podcast. Welcome back to the Intentional Parents podcast. Thank you

for taking some time to listen today. We so appreciate you taking any of your time to

listen and to engage with what we're talking about today. And if you have a minute, if

you would go to whatever platform you listen to this on and if you wouldn't mind rating,

even subscribing and even leaving a comment, that just really helps us continue to get more

hope and help out to people. Today, we're going to have a conversation on the teenage

years, which I'm excited about. And needing personally to talk about because we are

quickly approaching the teenage years, Elizabeth and Ian. So Phil and Ian and Elizabeth and

I are going to be chatting about the teenage years. And really because we don't have

teenagers, we're going to do more of the curiosity, the asking of questions that what did you

do and how hard of a teenager was Elizabeth and all those fun questions. And we're going

to have some of those conversations today. But maybe to kind of set us up a little bit,

Elizabeth, why don't you start us? Well, you know, I think so many, I mean so many parents

who are Jesus followers. I think carry this fear that as their kids get older, they won't

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