Episode 155: Holidays, Grief and Teenagers

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

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Each year we focus on some aspect of the holidays with teens. This year we want to focus in on those who are dealing with grief, loss and even depression around this time of year. What's different about how a parent should treat a teenager vs. a child when there's been a death, divorce or some other significant loss in a family's life? Is it better to just leave for the holidays and avoid facing grief? Why are teenagers sometimes the worst to have around when grieving and sometimes the best? We cover these and other topics (like whether canned or fresh cranberry sauce is better) as we head into the holidays. 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.
0:15.2	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. Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:22.2	Hey, Jessica.
0:23.6	How are you?
0:24.5	I'm good.
0:25.2	But you know what?
0:26.6	Today's conversation is going to be a little bit maybe on the sadder side.
0:31.1	So I'm not excited about that.
0:32.9	But I do think it's going to be very helpful because I think it's something that we all struggle with.
0:37.3	And that is grief and the holidays.
0:40.3	The holidays? Are we going to talk about the holidays?
0:43.3	Already, yes.
0:45.3	You know, every time when I would do speaking around the Dallas area, I did a lot of stuff,
0:51.2	I'd get calls from someone that was in charge of the topic for
0:56.2	each monthly meeting of something. And there was always this slew of, well, you know, the holidays
1:02.9	are coming up. People need to talk about holiday blues and depression. I was always like,
1:07.9	you know, I don't think people want to hear that. Or we're not going to be
1:10.9	talking about just the holiday blues, are we? No, I think we'll be covering some other things,
1:15.5	just disappointments or life changes that happen that make the holidays different for us this year, too.
1:21.7	You know, I think that there are a lot of aspects of the holidays that we have expectations that go unmet or maybe that are different than
1:28.1	they were in the past. And it can make it tough. And it can be hard on our teenagers too. So I want to
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