Episode 198: Talking Politics with 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

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

With recent political events, parents sometimes wonder how best to talk with adolescents about these issues. Jessica and Dr. Ken review the most effective ways to encourage teenagers to think and talk about political hot button issues. We also explore the odd situation of kids who are more conservative than their own parents. Guess who's kids we're talking about! 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.
0:22.4	Hi, Jessica.
0:24.1	We have an interesting topic today.
0:27.5	I think so.
0:28.5	It's going to be political in nature.
0:33.9	Oh, everyone clicked off.
0:35.5	Where did everyone go?
0:37.3	It's going to be politics. We're everyone go? It's going to be politics.
0:38.5	We're going to talk about politics and partly because, well, we just came through a pretty political season this fall in the U.S.
0:43.8	We had a presidential election, well, election season for a lot of different people, but also a president.
0:50.7	And we're about to do an inauguration in in just a few weeks and so topics like politics
0:57.1	are not very fun to address sometimes especially with family but i think it's an important thing
1:03.0	that we have this conversation about how to do it well with our kids with yeah watching teenagers
1:08.9	how they're watching you and how they talk about it is not the same thing
1:13.2	as with your children, as we say on this program all the time. But I think it's particularly
1:19.9	important now because of the volatility, like, you know, like not just what's being said, but how it's being said.
1:28.3	And I think it makes it harder than ever for a parent to make a statement or to try to, I don't know, make their point without being cast into, oh, you're one of those.
1:41.3	And you really want to be careful with that, I think.
1:47.2	Well, I know that even during the political season of the fall, there were a lot of people, either articles I read, people I talked to
1:53.0	personally, where, you know, they were concerned about holidays, Christmas, Thanksgiving,
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