What Parents Should Know About Teens, Part 1
Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk
Dr. James Dobson
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Parenting teens can feel like navigating a minefield of emotions and boundaries.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us. |
| 0:18.6 | Well, welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast ministry of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Roger Marsh. |
| 0:25.7 | Parents, let's be honest, when your sweet little girl suddenly acts like being seen with you as |
| 0:30.8 | fate worse than death or your well-behaved son starts pushing every boundary in sight, |
| 0:36.8 | well, congratulations. You have now |
| 0:38.9 | entered the teenage years. On today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's family talk, Dr. Dobson, |
| 0:45.4 | with authors and researchers, Shondi Feldhan and Lisa Rice, to unpack what's really going on |
| 0:50.6 | inside your teenager's head. Drawing from extensive surveys and real-life conversations |
| 0:55.1 | with kids, they will reveal why freedom is such a driving force for teens and how parents can |
| 1:00.7 | respond with both wisdom as well as grace. Here now to introduce today's conversation is Dr. James |
| 1:06.4 | Dobson, here on Family Talk. |
| 1:20.6 | We live in a very tough time to be a parent, and it's an even tougher time to be a kid, I think, to be a teenager. |
| 1:30.8 | There are just very few certainties for either generations now, and the pressures of the culture put everyone on the edge. And we want to offer some suggestions and advice today that may be helpful. I've spent a good part of my |
| 1:37.1 | professional career writing for teenagers one way or another, including preparing for adolescents, |
| 1:42.7 | which, by the way, was originally |
| 1:45.0 | written not for the public, but for my own daughter, who was 13 years of age. And my church |
| 1:51.5 | heard about it and said, can we use those tapes? And I let them use them. And a publisher heard |
| 1:58.0 | about it. And from there, it went on to a 30-year record with that |
| 2:02.9 | particular book. |
| 2:04.4 | It was followed by Parentingism for Cowards and portions of the Strong Will Child and |
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