Teens Parenting Beyond the Rules (Podcast 69)

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Durenda Wilson

Education For Kids, Kids & Family:parenting, Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

I remember when our kids were little and people would say, "Just wait until they are teenagers". It made me mad that they assumed my kids would grow into impossible teens, but it also cast a seed of doubt in my ability to parent teens. Our culture encourages us to give into one extreme or the other when it comes to our teens: set super tight boundaries OR let them do whatever they want. As believers we KNOW that God has a better plan than that, but how do we zero in on what that looks like? Today I am chatting with Connie Albers, author of Parenting Beyond the Rules. She shares some very deep wisdom and insight from her own experience parenting 5 kids (now adults) and working with teens for over 20 years. She answers questions like: How do you parent teens in the age of social media? How do parents confront their fears when it comes to raising teens? How can parents be proactive in their teen's lives? If a parent feels like they've lost the relationship with their teens (or never had a great one), where do they go from here? AND MORE!

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0:00.0	I am so glad that you're here today.
0:11.6	Today we're going to be talking about teens.
0:14.6	I'm really excited about this.
0:16.4	I have my friend Connie here and I'm going to introduce her in just a few minutes. But first,
0:21.7	I'll introduce myself in case you don't know me. I am married to Daryl. We've been married for
0:26.4	almost 30 years. We have eight kids, ages 28 down to 14, five boys and three girls. We have our sixth
0:34.6	grandbaby on the way. And we've been homeschooling for, oh, about 24 years.
0:39.3	And I love bringing encouragement to the hearts of homeschooling moms and moms who aren't
0:45.9	homeschooling. Today's topic is applicable to any mom because we're going to be talking about
0:51.4	teenagers. I'm going to be talking with my friend Connie because she has a lot of really amazing things to share.
1:00.0	And she has a book that she's written.
1:03.0	And we're going to be talking about that.
1:04.4	But I just remember when our kids were little.
1:08.1	And people would say they would look at all of them, cute little little buggers that they were. And people would say, they would look at all of them, cute little, little
1:12.3	buggers that they were, and they would say, just you wait until they're teenagers. And I just,
1:18.4	that always just somehow stuck in my craw, because I just thought, what do they mean by that?
1:24.2	Is there something that I don't know, because I know that as a teenager, I wasn't
1:28.7	a rebellious teenager. So I'm wondering what is that they're talking about. I'd seen other teenagers
1:34.0	rebel. And it kind of sowed a little bit of a seed of doubt in me. And I remember just praying
1:40.7	and asking God to prepare me for these years. And so I'm excited today to hear some of
1:47.8	the things that Connie has to say. Connie, welcome. I'm so grateful you're here today. Hey, Dorinda,
1:54.7	thank you for having me. I can't wait to chat about the parenting beyond the rules. And I love
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