Episode 184: Refocusing On Individuation - The Main Thing To Know About 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

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We're getting ready for the release of "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You" second edition. This gives Jessica and Dr. Ken the chance to clarify the most important themes that are unique to this approach to parenting adolescents. Today we review individuation which is the most important need that adolescents have by far. This need is so important that Dr. Ken even worries that if your teen doesn't seem to be pushing for autonomy that's not a good thing at all. Also, we take on common misperceptions like individuation is "just like when they were a 2 year old." WRONG! You can preorder Dr. Ken's book "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You" here: https://a.co/d/hBnlbzI Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Music provided by the great John David Kent - https://www.johndavidkent.com/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.
0:21.3	Hey, Dr. Ken. Hi. Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:22.6	Hi, Jessica.
0:24.3	I am excited about today's podcast.
0:27.7	It's kind of cool.
0:29.1	Yeah.
0:29.5	No, this is a big deal.
0:31.3	We are getting ready for your book launch, which will happen on November 5th of 2024.
0:38.7	So if you're listening to this before, you can pre-order or order the book on Amazon
0:43.3	or the other booksellers that you might use.
0:46.0	But we are going to be kind of getting ready to launch this book by talking about the things
0:51.1	that you've written in the book.
0:52.8	So I'm excited because this is good.
0:54.6	Second edition. It's true. It is kind of mind-blowing. You're so low-key, Dr. Ken. You need to get
1:00.6	more hype about this. Listen, I have I told you before, I am no, I'm not low-key. Half of wisdom is
1:07.2	just getting tired. I am old, so it's not the same thing. I'm excited about this because I feel
1:13.7	like this is such an opportunity for you to share your wisdom and the things that you've learned
1:17.7	over so many years of helping families. And I know that a lot of parents are excited about getting a new
1:23.7	book that will guide them, especially if they know, if they've never heard this,
1:27.7	or maybe they have younger kids and they're just now listening to the podcast, this is something new.
1:33.3	This is, this is new information to them.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -180 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.