Parenting Todays Teens Radio
  • A Ton of Stuff (10-26-2010)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    We parents do a ton of stuff for our kids, but what if they still don’t feel valued? Do we do more?

    There are four things you can offer your teenager to make them feel valued: your unconditional love, your experience, your time, and your wisdom; each of these builds value.

    You’ll notice that I didn’t mention “your money” or “your faith”? Material and spiritual things are needed and valuable, but they won’t build the kind of value and identity that a parent’s attention and love can.

    In fact, a teenager’s desire to be valued is so intense; they’ll dump their faith and destroy everything in their life just to find it — and usually from the wrong crowd.


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