Episode 173: Teenagers and Religion - Church, Synagogue, Mosque or Temple

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

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today we revisit the issue of passing on your own religious priorities to your teenagers. Since the pandemic, attendance at religious services is down significantly among Americans of all faiths. Among Christians, a significant percentage believe that watching church online is equal to church attendance. This drop in regular church or synagogue participation brings a unique challenge to parents who want to influence the faith of their adolescent children. Additionally, we talk about whether parents should require teenagers to attend activities designed for youth when they'd rather just go to service with their parents, what if they tell you they don't even believe in God? We cover these and other aspects of teenagers and faith. 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
0:12.8	teens and launching them into the world.
0:14.8	I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:22.4	Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:23.5	Hey, Jessica.
0:28.7	So I've been thinking, Sunday mornings are a battle in our house.
0:32.0	For with teenagers, sometimes.
0:36.0	Not every teenager, but some teenagers, not going to name names.
0:38.4	I don't want them to come at me.
0:45.3	It'll only make it worse. When I was a kid, I remember a lot of battles on Sunday mornings,
0:50.5	but usually it was about what I was wearing to church. These are not those battles. These are whether or not to go to church or whether to be involved in church, that sort of battle.
0:55.6	Yes.
0:56.4	You know, so I was hoping you could give me some advice on that. I could ask you a couple of questions on that.
1:01.6	So, you know, anytime you talk about things, you know, we talked about this back in May of 2020.
1:08.3	We talked about how to drive your teenager away from church. So if you want to go back
1:13.7	and look at that, but that was mainly about the control battles that come up, which is probably
1:18.8	part of what you're talking about. But, you know, that's changed. The element of what's a battle
1:25.0	about church and religion in our house changes even in the last
1:29.6	three years since the pandemic and so forth. So it really gets down more to the different families
1:34.8	that I work with, mostly Christian, but some who are Jewish and some Hindu that want to pass on,
1:42.2	actually Islam a little, want to pass on their faith.
1:47.0	And the battle is how to really the thing to think about is it's not just dealing with
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