Episode 51: Teenagers and the holidays

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

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Holidays can be so fun and full of love... unless our teenagers mess everything up! In this episode we discuss why teenagers sometimes don't like holiday family time and how to avoid impossible control battles trying to force them to smile. Instead, Dr. Ken recommends using holidays as another way to signal to our teenagers that they are now on the adult side of the holiday equation. Maybe it's high time your teen starts asking what YOU want for Christmas! Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Join us on Patreon for bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/FeedingTheMouthThatBitesYou

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome back on today's episode. We will be discussing teenagers.
0:04.2	Wait, stop. Sorry. I think my AC is not turned off. I didn't want it to call on in the middle of our recording.
0:11.3	Such a good start. You're listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.
0:17.8	A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:22.4	As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.
0:26.9	Hey, everyone, and welcome back on today's episode.
0:30.0	We will be discussing teenagers and the holidays.
0:33.3	Ashley, I love the holidays.
0:35.2	I really do.
0:36.1	I'm one of those crazy people, but I am very much
0:39.0	firmly in the camp of not mixing holidays. Like, I don't mix Thanksgiving and Christmas.
0:46.0	But I love Christmas. And I am like in my element with all of the fun and the extra and the chaos and all of that until I'm not.
0:58.8	Like, in middle of December, I'm ready to box up the Christmas tree and put away all the music
1:05.9	and I'm done, you know. So I think that a lot of parents feel that way where you're excited about the holidays.
1:12.5	It's fun. You have so many memories and so many fun things that you're going to do with the kids.
1:18.0	But then it also becomes very stressful. You get a lot of extra responsibilities.
1:22.0	You start to think these kids are absolutely ungrateful for all the things that I do.
1:29.0	So I'm curious, in your household, are there rules as to when can Christmas music start?
1:36.1	Oh, the day after Thanksgiving.
1:39.2	I like to put all of the Christmas decorations up the day after Thanksgiving if we're in town.
1:45.0	Wow.
1:46.0	Ashley, do you have that?
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