Ways You Are Letting Your Teens Hurt Themselves

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:25.2	Great article. Five ways we let our teens hurt themselves. Ouch. By Timothy Deal, and this was
0:36.0	published in all pro dad.com
0:40.0	www.w.w.allprodad.com.
0:44.6	I love this. I'm just going to excerpt because I agree with everything here.
0:49.9	So I'm going to excerpt and make it more emphatic.
1:00.2	Parenting a teen is difficult at best.
1:06.0	But I want to remind you, it's not because all your teenager kids are bad.
1:10.7	It's simply that they're morphing every day.
1:17.4	They're growing from little kids trying to squeeze into being an adult before their times.
1:23.0	They're being pressured, physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially.
1:29.2	They're shaped by forces that you and I never had to deal with when we were kids. So it's really difficult for parents to know where to start, where to end, and what they
1:35.8	do.
1:36.8	So here's five ways.
1:40.0	Pay attention to these, please.
1:43.5	Number one, we allow them to isolate?
1:48.2	Sometimes, just like adults, kids need their space.
1:52.0	That's not what I'm talking about.
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