Shifting Gears: Parenting Through the Teen Years
Speakers: Tim Elmore, Sissy Goff, David Thomas, and Gerald Fadayomi
Length: 4 Parts
Parenting through the teen years is uniquely challenging! We feel the pressure to get it right because the stakes are high, and the time we have left with our teens can feel like it’s slipping away. It’s easy to be so focused on the day-to-day tasks and choices that we forget where we’re headed—a day when our teenagers will be adults who leave home and begin making the majority of their decisions on their own.
So we sat down with some of our favorite experts—Tim Elmore, Sissy Goff, David Thomas, and Gerald Fadayomi—to talk about what it looks like to parent our teens where they are today while also moving them toward a future of confidence and independence. We cover topics like dating and relationships, technology, faith, and the important shift we need to make as parents to prepare our kids for the road ahead.
Part 1: Get Them Ready!
We talk with Tim Elmore about what’s true of this generation of teenagers and how to prioritize preparing them for the future.
Part 2: Technology and Social Media
We talk with Sissy Goff about what it looks like to prepare our teenagers for a future of setting their own guardrails for technology and social media when they grow up and move out on their own.
Part 3: Dating and Relationships
We talk with David Thomas about how we can help our teenagers navigate the complicated waters of dating and relationships now and set them up for a lifetime of making wise decisions in this area.
Part 4: Faith and Community
We talk with Gerald Fadayomi about how to help teens build a solid foundation of faith in this stage of their lives and set them up to prioritize their faith once they graduate and step into the next season.
