Episode 197: When Your Teenager Is Out of Control

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

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Today we answer a listener question about dealing with a teenager who doesn't follow parents' rules and seem unfazed by any consequences parents give. Is this common? What about parents who "give up" on their teenager but let them live at home? Dr. Ken makes it clear that this is not a common problem and should be evaluated. Also, we talk about common reasons these situations occur. 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 Wilgis.
0:21.9	Hey, Dr. Ken.gus. Hey, Dr. Ken.
0:23.2	Morning, Jessica.
0:25.0	Hey, we have had a great response by emails of different questions that parents are having.
0:31.7	I know, right?
0:32.8	You and I both see those.
0:34.6	I love it.
0:35.3	Yes.
0:35.8	And some of them, I apologize, we don't get to answer because they might be too specific or, you know,
0:42.4	really specific to the family or the situation.
0:44.6	But some of them we do love to use because we can ask the question of Dr. Ken and get a podcast
0:50.7	answer for it.
0:51.7	So I'm excited about today because I'm going to ask you some questions
0:54.9	from an email we got from a dad. Okay. Yeah. So he was concerned. He was talking about kids who
1:04.0	don't seem to have any impact with the consequences that they've given, like taking away the car, phone, money, freedom
1:12.6	for bad behavior. It might be sneaking out. It might be being dishonest, whatever. He was saying,
1:20.0	he was using extreme examples, but when a teen becomes unwilling to do anything, regardless of
1:25.2	consequences, are there times when moving them out at
1:28.7	16 is better for the family, or do you let them live that way in your house to gain peace
1:34.0	for everyone else?
1:35.0	So we did address this in episode 112, but that was a long time ago, and that episode
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