What's Driving Your Teen's Behavior?
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It's typical for teenagers to experience ups and downs. But if your child continues to be withdrawn or angry, consider what's under the surface. John and Danny describe root fears that can cause teens to act out.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Well, most teens go through lots of ups and downs. I remember when one of my sons was about |
| 0:16.1 | 13 or 14, he started crying for no reason, and I just looked at them, I said, these are hormones, |
| 0:21.3 | these are the teen years. It's pretty normal for them to go |
| 0:24.5 | through faces like that they get withdrawn or irritable or overly emotional but if your |
| 0:30.2 | child kind of gets stuck in one of those faces, you may want to perk up and pay attention. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting and youth department here at |
| 0:40.3 | Focus on the family, and let's turn to a conversation Jim Daly and I had |
| 0:44.2 | with authors Michael Anderson and Dr Timothy Johanson who described the root of |
| 0:49.2 | some common behaviors in teams. Tim and Michael welcome welcome back to Focus on the family. |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:56.0 | It is always good to talk with you. |
| 0:58.0 | You have really tapped into something with your book, JIST. |
| 1:02.0 | It feels counterintuitive, but to recap from last time, talking about |
| 1:07.6 | backing away from some of those communication disasters, and I'm sure most parents have had that situation where you have gotten into a real argument or discussion or firm talk with that |
| 1:25.0 | with that teenager or maybe a child who's showing some self-determination |
| 1:26.0 | and a little bit of strong will and you're going whoa |
| 1:28.0 | where's that coming from? |
| 1:30.0 | It's refreshing to think of new ways to do this and I would encourage all of you listening |
| 1:35.6 | to open your heart open your mind about how to do this more effectively. |
| 1:40.1 | That's the goal. We talked last time about the ways we communicate with our children and I thought you had some great tools there for parents to think differently about engaging. |
| 1:51.0 | I learned many things the last time we talked. One area that we didn't address is fear. |
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