Episode 196: How to Have a Great Spring with Your High School Senior

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

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Now that we've reached the spring of 2025, it's time to review the best ways to finish out with a high school senior. Even the most dedicated "Feeding The Mouth..." parent can struggle with these last months of their kid's adolescent life. Today we talk about how a parent can be most effective in helping a high school senior with preparation for college, trade school or whatever path their young adult child will taking after high school. Being effective means clearly and continually announcing the freedoms your senior has and using that as a basis for open and regular communication about upcoming challenges. We talk about complicating factors like cell phone tracking, setting up doctor appointments and more. 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	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.
0:23.1	Jessica, what are those earrings?
0:25.5	Oh, well, they're festive.
0:27.1	They're for the holidays.
0:28.3	I like big earrings.
0:29.5	Oh.
0:30.7	It's too bad.
0:31.1	This isn't YouTube.
0:32.0	You're all pretty and pink with the dangly earrings.
0:35.8	Big earrings on.
0:37.5	The kind that my wife wears and they get pulled out by her scarf when she takes the scarf off.
0:43.0	I've spent many times searching around like, oh, oh, no, where did they go?
0:47.7	What happened?
0:48.2	I know.
0:48.8	I know.
0:49.3	I had an earring.
0:51.1	I had an earring when I was first married.
0:53.8	Yes, I did. The two parents,
0:56.5	what? Never knew about. That's true. What I think is so funny. What a hypocrite, Dr. Ken is,
1:03.5	right? It's like, what do you do? Yeah, no, I just never told my mom. You were an adult married,
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