Episode 157: Hygiene Issues with 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

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Ever have to air out your car after driving your teen home from practice? Adolescence brings major changes to teens lives including how they smell! Today we tackle the tricky issue of parents intervening with adolescents with poor hygiene including not showering, not brushing their teeth and other basics. Teenagers are too old to use a checklist like a child so what can parents do? Dr. Ken discusses paying attention to underlying factors effecting this behavior as well as ways to effectively communicate about issues of personal hygiene with teenagers. 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.
0:21.1	Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:22.3	Hey, Jessica.
0:23.1	What's you doing?
0:24.3	Oh, well, I'm thinking about, have you ever had a kid who got in the car after football and smelled horrible?
0:35.2	Did you talk to my mother?
0:36.5	I told, I told, well, she's been gone for a while. Yes,
0:40.9	yes, I think I have. Is that ever happened to you? Yes. So when my kid, my son was in middle school,
0:49.4	we had a football pickup rotation. And I remember to this day, and that was a lot of years ago,
0:55.6	that it was Fridays because I had to air my car out almost the entire weekend after this boys were
1:00.2	in my car. Come on. No, it was terrible. No, it was terrible. They would get in after football. A lot of
1:06.9	them had not washed their football uniforms or training uniforms a week long. There's the problem.
1:11.9	That's right. A lot of them were neglecting to put on deodorant every day. You know,
1:18.0	they weren't consistent with that. It was, it was a smell that I can't even reproduce if I wanted to.
1:24.0	Yes. Yes. So today, yes. So today we're going to talk about teens and hygiene.
1:30.4	Right.
1:30.9	There are a lot of issues with hygiene and teenagers.
1:34.3	And some kids are great about it.
1:35.7	Some kids,
1:36.3	they're just naturally inclined to care about the way that they look and the way that
1:40.7	they smell around other people.
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