Episode 164: Parenting Teenagers In An Age Of Anxiety

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

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Today we review yet another news article about increased anxiety in teenagers. What is causing so much anxiety among our teens today? How should parents respond to teenagers who are anxious about the world they face today? When parents worry unnecessarily about every teenage struggle they run the risk of implying their adolescents are powerless to face today's struggles. Dr. Ken focuses instead on the need to parent in ways that empower adolescents and encourage them to face the troubles of their world in ways we parents could never imagine. Today's episode refers to these articles: Today’s Teenagers: Anxious About Their Futures and Disillusioned by Politicians - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/upshot/teens-politics-mental-health.html How Anxiety Became Content - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/therapy-language-anxiety-mental-health/676325/ 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	If you enjoy this podcast, would you mind leaving us a review?
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0:14.1	Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting
0:18.6	teens and launching them into the world.
0:20.9	I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilges.
0:27.0	Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:28.6	Jessica, how are you doing?
0:30.2	I'm good. I've been reading, and I had an article I wanted to share with you.
0:36.7	Yes, an article that changed our topic today. It did. Yes. It's,
0:41.5	it was in the New York Times. It's called Today's Teenagers, Anxious About Their Futures and Disillusioned
0:48.6	by Politicians. It was by Claire Kane Miller. And she was essentially saying that the current generation of
0:58.6	young Americans feel particularly apprehensive and anxious about their lives, disillusioned
1:04.6	about the direction of the country, and pessimistic about their futures. And she had interviewed,
1:10.2	it was actually a poll by Common Sense Media.
1:13.9	She talked a lot about it. And it was respondents were ages 12 to 17. So right in the middle of what we really talk about.
1:21.2	And that's right. That's right. That's right. So did you get a chance to check that out?
1:26.5	I did. And of course, just looking at the title, my first thought was, oh, great, another article
1:33.8	about the crisis of our poor teenagers that are suffering mental health anxiety problems.
1:40.4	It's just they feel terrible.
1:43.3	Because I know I'm going to end up taking the fall out of parents that come to my office, even more worried and more freaked out because now this is a whole generation in crisis and stuff. It's like, okay, no, it's not quite that bad. I thought it was interesting. The questions they asked these teenagers. Did you? Yes, they asked a lot
2:04.5	of questions about politics and how these kids felt about politics. What do you, I'm sorry,
2:10.0	maybe my house is different, but my kids don't know a whole lot about politics. What they do know is
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