Episode 152: "Why Is My Teenager Angry All The Time?"

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Why do teenagers sometimes go through phases of being constantly angry and surly? Dr. Ken reviews the most common causes of teenager's anger and talks about some best ways to respond. We also take on the question of just how bad is it when your teenager seems to not like you. I mean, it gets better right?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:15.0	I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:20.8	Hey, Dr. Ken. Hey, Jessica. How are you? I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:21.9	Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:23.0	Hey, Jessica.
0:23.5	How are you?
0:24.9	I'm good.
0:27.5	It's been a busy weekend this weekend.
0:30.3	What do you possibly have to do?
0:35.1	I want to tell you that I am about to not need you anymore.
0:35.8	No, I'm talking. What?
0:37.3	No, I have one daughter that
0:39.8	turned 17 this weekend. And in a couple of days. I have another daughter that's turning 13.
0:47.3	So my kids are, you know, very well, very much through some of them. Well, three of them are through the bulk of the
0:56.2	teen years. How cool is that? One last one that's coming up. So this is a big birthday week,
1:01.4	which makes me think about lots of things. It is cool, though, that you can see a finish line,
1:08.6	which is a good thing. Yes. Well, and it makes me think very nostalgically
1:13.6	about my kids and them being younger and how delightful they were when they really loved me
1:19.6	and wanted to spend time with me. How long ago was that? That was quite a while ago, wasn't it?
1:24.4	Oh, yeah, years, years.
1:37.1	And, you know, I know that our listeners are feeling the same way sometimes about looking back on their kids at certain ages and realizing, you know, my kid doesn't really like to be around me anymore for some reason.
1:41.5	I'm not as wonderful and amazing as I was when they were seven or eight. Right.
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