Episode 153: Helping Teenagers' Problems with Friendships and Social Groups

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

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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How can parents help their adolescents when they are having problems with their social group? What if my teen isn't really in a social group at all? Today we take on the increasingly difficult area of social relationships. In an era of increasing isolation, it is more important than ever for parents to do what they can (if anything) to encourage their teenagers to make, build and sustain social relationships with their peers. Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Feeding-Mouth-That-Bites-You/dp/1514762374/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1667269257&sr=8-1 Music provided by the great John David Kent! - https://www.johndavidkent.com/

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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	Dr. Ken, this morning, I have an agenda.
0:23.8	You've come with an agenda instead of our usual free-flowing, just chat away, which people love.
0:30.6	I know.
0:31.1	I really, I really want to cover a topic that we've covered in portions, but I want to cover, just talk with you about how to
0:40.5	encourage our kids' friendships and maybe help them walk through difficult times with friends
0:47.6	or difficult times not having friends at all. Oh, I see. Your agenda is to bait Dr. Ken because you know how much I worry
0:58.3	about this. It concerns me all the time with about teenagers. Yes. Well, and I, you know, I always have
1:06.9	like a little bit of a selfish motivation because I do have teenagers. And so some of this is
1:10.8	just free therapy for me. So we may or may not have had some of these problems in the past
1:15.8	couple of weeks. And it's nice to get your expert opinion on it. Well, it, it, I've said before,
1:20.7	it worries me because I sometimes have to teach the importance of friendships to girls. I never had to teach the importance
1:30.6	of friendships to girls. Girls, it's the thing that boys complain about. They're always into
1:35.8	drama. Yeah, drama is the stuff of relationship conflict and it's just good relationship stuff.
1:43.4	There's anything worse than relationship conflict.
1:46.8	It's no relationship. It's actually spending time with electronic devices and thinking that that is a
1:53.6	sort of social relationship. So yeah, I, you know, it's tricky in how do you, you know, what do you do with teenagers?
2:01.9	Because as you may have noticed, they rarely come to you saying, I need help with my social
2:07.7	life. They're not going to want to even talk about it.
2:10.8	For sure. Well, and, you know, we talked in episode number 65.
2:16.6	We talked about teenagers and their friends. Now, let's just
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