Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood (Part 1) - Dr. Ken Wilgus

13 doing laundry ? I started at 7/8 😂 both of my kids do their own laundry weekly. 😅

Outstanding!!

My daughter has attempted suicide and does drugs. I feel like a single mom without husband support. I'm lost.

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LOVE THIS! I needed this so badly. Thank you so much.

For a Christian psychologist none of your advice is Christian nor in the Bible you are a fraud

Praying for our son. Our heart is aching for him...he seemed to know everything he is doing is right and reasonable...he is a SH graduating student. We are trying to reach out to him to help and to guide, but he already kept a distance from us🥺 but still we're doing all we can to ahow him our love. His dad and I are both pastoring a church but he started to stay away from the people in the church, too.😢😢

I agree with very little of this. Not helpful. We are to protect our kids from being conformed to this world. Scripture wasn't consulted.

Thank you 🙏

nice to be hear...an advocate for teenagers

Parenting a teen and young adult these days is unbelievably difficult, exhausting and soul breaking

I really needed to hear this today. My 13 year old just asked me when he could move out and I broke down. I felt like a failure as a parent. I've loved and supported him and not hovered over him. He has lots of the freedoms spoken about here. So it really blind-sided me when he said he wanted to move out. But hearing this advice gives me some comfort that it's normal and I need to carry on gearing him up to leave.

Thenks for your perspective

I'm 45 and parents practiced dictatorship and it worked but it can't work within generation

This is exactly what Islam teaches about teenagers being young adults rather older kids.. amazing to hear from this specialist 🎉bravo

As an atheist, I came in skeptical, but no this guy is legit. Great advice for any parent regardless of faith or lack there of.

Adolescence is distinct from adulthood. Teens are still developing mentally, sexually, and physically. (How many fifteen-year-old boys are at their peak height and muscle mass?)

Where did the statistics come from? I have heard the "14 yo girls got married" trope for 30 years. That was RARE, not average.

My daughter is 11. I love her. I am just looking for help. I don't want to make the same mistakes that my father made

What about going at it late😣 what about instead of starting at 12 we start at 16?

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I used this approach with my oldest, did not go well. I will control, as much as needed. I will not allow mine to hang with the wrong crowd, make big important decisions with their immature brains. Sorry, this can be bad advise. If it worked for you, great, but it will not work for all.

This does not always work.

Great video!😅❤

I’m so glad I found this my baby boy (12 years old ) is struggling so bad mentally & I know it has to do with how I have parented him looking toward to trying these new strategies ❤

This has been the BEST information I have seen on working with my children/Teens. Thank you.

Great content!

What you're teaching is dangerous and contrary to what God's word says. Proverbs 22:6 says "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it!" Children don't know what's best for them, which is why we have to tell them and then hold them accountable. 🙏🏾🙌🏾

I appreciate the explanation but I don't believe this teaching is in alignment with God's word! Why would I give my teenager permission to do something that's going to hurt them or possibly someone else ??

Thank you this really helped me lots 😊

Life is more expensive now, and I refuse to allow my children to struggle. I will help them for a while longer.

This is SO AFFIRMING! Our oldest son just graduated and he has been pushing to get out since he was 13! I have thought so many times that we would have had WAY fewer issues if he could have graduated when he was 14. He would have been okay. Instead, we went through a whole lot of issues, and have been on a nauseating roller coaster ride, but we are PRAYING that we are coming out on the other side and that he is getting back on track to adulthood.

My son is happy, too that I was strict or as he said, he'd be dead or in prison.

This is really great. Thank you so much

fantastic..just what l needed

What happens when they are making choices that are dangerous for them? I believe there are times when you need to protect them from themselves! We have wisdom that they do not and there are times where they need protecting.

It's not easy to handle teenage daughters now a days.

Enjoyed your teaching.
Not one size fits all in marriages or families.

Wow this was brilliant, I’ve now bought the book to get more tips

America is being destroyed by our own government. Communist China has bought and paid for Obama, Biden, Pelosi etc. And they are tearing down Christians first

I had saved this in my "watch later" a long time ago. I'm so grateful I found it again because I have recently become very discouraged and hopeless with a 9 year battle to get to the cause of a complete health decline. Doctors just pull out their prescription pads and tell me "everything looks normal" but I know it's not. I am planning to reach out for more info- thank you!!

Hmm - so you don't practise what you preach - your wife got TOLD what to do - "Stand up Sally" . . .

Thank You Jesus for this man 🥹🙏🏼☝🏼🫂😭

Their blood is on your hands

This definitely depends on the kids maturity level. They are not all emotionally equipped by a certain age, to take on all choices. Their choices and actions, have guided me on what more I can hand over to them. Little at a time, as they show more and more maturity. I have had both. One, where they were given and could handle much responsibility and important life changing choices and another one, who is waay younger than their age. Emotionally and mentally, they are still a small child. Have had to take more baby steps.

Adult in training...love it

I think this is based on Caucasian culture

Wish I had heard this BEFORE my kids became teens! A brilliant plan!