Episode 194: The Pros and Cons of Self-Awareness

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

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Adolescents are more focused on their inner lives than ever before. But is this always a good thing? Jessica and Dr. Ken discuss yet another new chapter in the second edition of "Feeding The Mouth That Bites You." It's not enough to encourage teens to know their own feelings. This focus needs to be balanced with genuine concern for others. When your teenager tells you she's depressed or that he's anxious, is there ever a time to minimize or even ignore their complaints. Today we take on these and other important aspects of adolescent self-awareness. You can order 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/

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0:00.0	Hey, are you still looking for the perfect holiday gift?
0:03.3	I've got a suggestion for you.
0:05.1	You can find Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, Dr. Kinn's second edition of his book,
0:10.4	at any online retailer, or you can find it at Focus on the Family.com.
0:16.1	Thank you. Welcome back to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You, a weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:31.8	I'm Jessica Pfeiffer, and as always, I'm joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgis.
0:38.4	Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:39.9	Hi, Jessica.
0:40.8	How you doing?
0:41.8	I'm good.
0:43.2	Hey, today's topic is going to be the pros and cons of self-awareness, which is a chapter
0:48.5	in your new book, meaning the mouth that bites you.
0:51.4	It's been released recently.
0:53.0	And if you don't have a new copy to our listeners,
0:55.6	I would say, go out and get it today because it's fantastic. I love the extra chapters you've added
1:01.5	in here. And this is one of them. So I wanted to make sure we included this topic in our conversations.
1:07.0	Yeah. And this one was a little tricky because, you know, I was really, it's the introduction to the section on issues like anxiety, depression, attention deficit disorder, autism spectrum.
1:20.3	There's a bunch of issues that relate to adolescents, and of course, all of this relates to the kind of planned emancipation philosophy and how
1:29.3	these relate to that so it's you know it's not a textbook on adolescent depression or whatever but it is
1:35.2	but when I was looking at all of those things one of the things that really stood out to me that
1:40.5	has changed even since we did the first book 10 years ago.
1:45.7	And that is that teenagers are much more focused on putting words to how they're feeling.
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