When Your Teenager Starts To Date | Ep. 458
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode Dr. Kim and Christina talk about what to do when your teens start to date. This may feel like a daunting milestone, but they are here to help give you peace of mind plus practical help to prepare well and handle it with grace. Whatever stage of parenting you are in, or if you are a friend or relative of teens, Dr. Kim and Christina have some great ideas and advice to help you prepare, support and encourage the teens you love as they start to think about dating.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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Resources:
- The God's Design for Sex Series books are a great teaching tool
- This isn't the first time we've talked about kids' dating! Check out other episodes on the topic:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:30.0 | What do you do when your children want to start dating? How do we lead them well when it comes |
| 0:34.8 | to that? This is the topic that we are going to attempt to tackle today. We know that this is a really touchy topic and one that every parent handles really |
| 0:42.5 | differently, and we respect that. Today, we are simply just going to share our thoughts and what |
| 0:47.6 | we have learned, but like with everything, pray and discern for yourself what God is leading you |
| 0:52.9 | to do with your family and your household and your |
| 0:55.3 | children. And truly, Dr. Kim, you're kind of on your own on this one because I have a five-year-old |
| 1:00.2 | and a two-year-old, so I'm going to go ahead and say we're not quite there yet when it comes to dating. |
| 1:05.0 | Finley probably thinks she could date now, right? |
| 1:07.3 | She does. She talks about marriage all the time. |
| 1:10.6 | You've got a whole different podcast. Yeah talks about marriage all the time. You've got, that's a whole different |
| 1:12.3 | podcast. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. But I'm excited to learn from you today. So Dr. Kim, |
| 1:17.8 | do you think it's normal to freak out as a parent when your kids start asking and wanting to date? |
| 1:24.1 | Yeah, I think yes. I think it is just because the culture we live in, I think our fears, maybe |
| 1:28.6 | experiences we had at the same age and we're fearful of the same thing for our kids. |
| 1:34.7 | And I think we have a tendency to focus on the negative of it and, you know, just all the fears |
| 1:39.4 | that overwhelm us. I think some of it too, it's acknowledging the fact my kids growing up, and sometimes |
| 1:45.6 | that's hard. We wish we think we look at our daughter and she's 16 and she's getting ready to go |
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