Mi Podcast:Parenting Teenagers: Recent Episodes

Darren and Katie Sutton, Millennial Influence

Mi Podcast - The place where parents can come for answers, encouragement, and the help they need to raise a successful teenager. Mi Podcast will address topics such as communication, discipline, divorce, sex, dating, friends, money and many other topics that are important while raising a teenager. Mi Podcast is a weekly show that is no longer than the length of a short commute (10-15min). For more information about Millennial Influence visit our website at www.minfluence.com.

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Using Politics as Teachable Moments

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New Facebook Privacy Settings

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Suicide Prevention with Jud Kossum

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Interview with Doug Franklin, teen leadership expert

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Why Kids Lie

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Kids Sneaking Booze

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Parents Make the Call!

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Little White Lies

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Are preteens old enough for Facebook

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Power in your messages

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Adrenaline Junkies

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Going to High School

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Deeper Dating Relationships

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Taking an Intentional Family Vacation

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Sending Your Kid to College

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Praying for Your Kids

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Knowing When You've Failed

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Dan Webster with Kid Unique

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My Son Doesn't Date

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Helping Kids Transition When Mentors Leave

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Affection in Front of Your Kids

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Dealing with Divorce

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Laughter Heals the Family

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Keeping Kids Active During the Summer

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Raising Kids in Extreme Subcultures

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Dealing with bad grades

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When Teenagers Reject Your Way of Life

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Needs vs. Wants

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Finding Music with a Positive Message

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Encouraging Your Kids

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Teens Skipping Church

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Teenage Pregnancy

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Apologizing to your kids

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Recognizing Porn Addiction & Dangers

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Leading the Family with Intention

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Influence your teen's friends

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When the Youth Pastor Leaves

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Recognizing the signs of an eating disorder

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Cracking the Teenager 'Help Me' Code

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Teenagers Forsaking Their Pets

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Showing gratitude for our teens

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Vampires and teenagers

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Helping teenagers through grief

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Thank adults who influence teens

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Are teenagers too old for Halloween?

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Giving Teens a Bedtime

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Enjoying the Senior Year

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Setting Your OWN Standards for Parenting

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Talking to your kids about the recession.

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When to trust your kids home alone.

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How significant should the significant other be?

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Teenagers using over-the-counter drugs.

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Motivating teenagers to get good grades.

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Helping teenagers define their faith-base.

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How much trust is too much?

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Are you a meddlesome parent?

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Helping your teenager pick the right college.

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Get your teenagers talking!

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Defining a step-parent's role

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Engaging an apathetic teenager

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Political discussions with your teenager

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Helping teenagers realize their dreams.

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Helping teenagers with conflict resolution.

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What to do when you find out your teenager is leading a double-life.

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The importance of dad's role!

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Join us in a personal conversation with author and speakers Doug and Kathy Fields as we discuss how they are raising teenagers in the midst of their hectic and high-profile schedule.

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Helping your teenagers be more service-minded.

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Keeping siblings connected during the college years.

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How to argue in front of the kids.

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Communicating with your preteen.

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Seizing moments to spend time with your teenager.

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Domestic Violence

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Media Fast Recap

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Teenage Depression

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Single Parents Dating

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Provoking Your Kids

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Cynical Spirituality

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Tattoos & Peircings

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Teenage Relationships

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Encouraging the positive in your teenager when it's SO EASY to find the negative!

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Giving Appropriate Gifts

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Family Dinner

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Managing Money

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Lying

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Talking Sex to Tweens

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Media Fast

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Role Models

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New Year Resolution

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Giving Advice

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Sibling Rivalry

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Family Time at Christmas

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Negotiating with Teens

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Marijuana Use

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Private Time for Preteens

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Confessing Your Past

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Compulsive Exercise

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Showing Courtesy & Respect

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Overweight Teens

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Ridicule at Home

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Kids Who Won't Grow Up

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Discussing Movies

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What is sexting?

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Summer Spiritual Growth

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Physical Discipline for Teenagers?

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Influencing your Teen's Friends

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Balancing Family

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Lazy Teenagers

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Talking about sex

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Addicted to video games

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Making Memories with Teenagers

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Premier Podcast (2007)

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Disciplining Your Teenager

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Cell phone limits for teenagers

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Teenagers and garage bands

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Saying 'yes' to the right things

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Pressuring Your Teen to Succeed

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When your teenager wants to live with your ex.

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Dealing with teenagers in love.

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Giving respect to your teenager.

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Explaining puberty to your preteen.

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Disciplining your teenager for repeat offenses.

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Easing test anxiety in teens.

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Building your teenager's self esteem.

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What to do when your teenager announces they're homosexual.

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Teenagers and cheating.

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When is it OK to invade your teenager's space?

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Knowing when to drug test your teenager.

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Creative ways to communicate love to your teenager.

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Helping your teenager apply for colleges and universities.

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When your teenager loses her best friends

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Helping Your Kids Cope When Crisis or Tragedy Strikes.

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How do you get your teenagers to clean their rooms without a huge fight.

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Guiding your teenager toward memorizing scripture.

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Negotiating an Appropriate Curfew Time with Your Teenager

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How to avoid the "I'm 18" trap. What do I do if I've been caught?

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Teaching your teenager to move beyond the entitlement mentality.

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Recognizing and breaking generational curses. Avoiding passing generational sin down to your teenager.

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Praying for Your Teenager

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How to be an influence on the teenagers around you.

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Giving your teenager the approval they seek in a language they can understand.

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The Happily Ever After Syndrome - In love with falling in love. Helping your teen define true love.

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"But Mom, I DO know them!"  Modern virtual friendships.

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The Anniversary Show!  Just for Fun.

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Surviving Single Parenting a Teenager.

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Encouragement for parents of teenagers that are turned off to God.

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Being thankful for your teenager when you just want to strangle them!

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Teaching your teenager to gaurd their heart and avoid false intimacy.

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Practical Tips to Connecting your Teenager with Grandparents

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In the quantity of time we spend together with our teenagers, are our electronics keeping us from quality time?

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WHAT?!! My Teen Wants to Trick or Treat!  What's that about?

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I Can't Talk to my Teenager without it Ending in a Fight. Learn some techniques that may help in ending the constant conflict with your teenager.

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Defining the term "emo" in relationship to your teenager and knowing when and when not to panic!

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"EWW! Get A Room!" How much affection is too much to show in front of your teenager and how does it affect them?

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Purity Pledges, Abstinence Commitments, True Love Waits...all ways a teen can publicly commit to not having sex until marriage.  Do these work and how can a parent help their teenager stick to the commitment?

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What to do when your teenager doesn't want to move.

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Teaching automotive responsibility to your teenager before they get behind the wheel of the car.

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What to do when your teenager hates the new Youth Pastor.

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Sometimes teenagers seem to be speaking in some secret code!  In this podcast, we discuss how to decipher when your teenager is asking for your help.

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Protecting your kids from media influences.

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It ain't the Brady Bunch! Peacefully bringing two families together under one roof.

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Helping your teenager learn to make good decisions for themselves.

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Helping your teenager transition and deal when the youth pastor leaves.

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Handling High School with Your Teenager.

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Successfully making the transition into Jr. High!

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Dealing with the issues that surround your teenager going to college - his and yours!

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How to tell your teenager you are getting remarried

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Keeping your kid's secrets even when you didn't know it was one! What's the big deal?

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What to do when you suspect that your teen is experimenting with alternative lifestyles.

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Leading your teenager to Christ.

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How do I tell my son I don't like the way his girlfriend is treating him? Talking with your teen about your dislike of their significant other without driving them away from you and into their arms.

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Pornography - Is my teenager addicted to porn?  What do I do?

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Helping your pre-teen daughter grow into adolescence.

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Making vacation an intentional act of communication with your teenager.

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You're so embarrassing! Negative VS Positive Embarrassment

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Knowing your teenager's media influences.

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Parents fighting in front of thier teenagers.  Can it be healthy?

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Helping your teenager navigate school dances.

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Sometimes the line between friend and parent can become a little blurred.  You aren't bipolar, it can be both!

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Are family devotions really necessary?

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Teenagers seem to spend the whole summer sleeping and using the computer.  Today we discuss ideas to help you get your teenager to DO something this summer!

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Talking with your teen about alternative lifestyles.

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Talking with your teenager about pornography and safegaurding your home and your teen from its influence.

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My teen is being bullied.  How do I deal with it without embarassing him or making it worse?

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Using God as a discipline.

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My daughter is pregnant.  What do I do now?

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My son is so shy that he doesn't want to date? Is that normal for a teenage boy?

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Helping your teenager navigate their "imaginary friends" on the internet.

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Preparing your teen for adulthood by giving them confidence to live on their own so they don't have to live with you forever!

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Showing your teen how to manage money before they enter adulthood.

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When teenagers cannot get along with their younger siblings.

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Humble Pie and other just desserts! How to apologize to your teenager.

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Helping your kids tell the truth without setting them ablaze!

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Millennial Influence is proud to present Mi Podcast! Mi Podcast strives to help encourage parents through an open discussion of topics relevant to raising teenagers. We know that raising teenagers can be difficult and we want Mi Podcast to be a resource available to you in the times you need it most.

Mi Podcast will upload new episodes each Friday. Mi Podcast is the length of a typical short commute (10-15min). We want Mi Podcast to be an easily available, free, convenient resource. Please feel free to download and copy the podcast to cd to pass on to others who may benefit from it.

Millennial Influence offers additional resources, and welcomes questions and comments at http://www.minfluence.com.

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Dating-It's not just for teenagers anymore! How to tell your kids you are ready to start dating.

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My teenager is failing and I don't know what to do!

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A discussion about the benefit of family meals together at the table. How do I get my kid to talk?

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My son and his girlfriend are very serious. They say they're in love but they are only teenagers. How do I deal with this?!

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What to do when one child in your house requires most of the attention and the other kids are feeling invisible.

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Encouraging a life of worship in your teenager.

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Realistic expectations of your teens considering the example they are imitating.

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What to say to your daughters and sons about date rape.

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As a parent, it's our responsibility to protect our children, but how do you shelter your teen without overprotecting him from "the real world"? 

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What do you mean "I don't love you"!!!  I tell you I love you all the time!  Effectively communicating love to your teenager in a way that they really hear you.

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What to do when your child doesn't like you anymore. Communicating with the teenager in your child.

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Cutting ....and we're not talking paper dolls.
What is "cutting"? How do I know if my teenager is involved in it?

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What do I do if my teenager does not want to attend church? What if they want to go to a different church than our family?

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Teenagers personal expression through clothing and accessories - Where do you as the parent draw the line?

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Talking with your teen about their future spouse.

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Disciplining a teenager...when grounding doesn't work.

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They never listen to anything I say...or do they?  The art of giving teenagers advice so that they really listen to what you say.

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Talking to your teenager about guilt over past or present mistakes.

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Recognizing the signs of an eating disorder in your teenager.

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When is depression a problem with your teenager?

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Fighting so everyone wins!

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Battling Sibling Rivalry

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Successfully incorporating faith into your family

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When to involve outside help; When you have done all you can do

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Unwittingly pressuring your teenager to be what YOU want them to be.

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Handling a discussion with your teenager about tattoos and piercings.

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Confessing past failures to your teenager

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What should I say?

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Talking with your teenager about alcohol, partying, and its possible consequences.

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Dealing with Ex's, Steps, and Other Evils

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How do I know how much independence to give my teenager?  When do I cut the apron strings?

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How do I get my teenager to DO ANYTHING?!!

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Helping your teenager escape unexpected and uncomfortable situations.

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Approaching your teenager about their suspected sexual activity.  

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How to get to know your teenager's friends without demanding an interview.

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Avoiding the "I'm 18" trap.  What do I do if I've been caught?

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How do I tell my kid I hate their friends?!

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Helping my teen cope with an impending divorce.

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"Just wait until you grow up- then you'll really know what pressure is!"  Recognizing the stress that teenagers face today and helping them navigate it successfully.

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"Oww! My thumb hurts!"  Can my teenager really be addicted to gaming?

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Standing up to the pressure of other parent's standards.

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Teenagers in the workforce.  How much is good experience and how much is sacrificing school, family, and life?

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Creating moments with your teen that they will remember forever!

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Dating has become a very significant part of teenage culture, but how much a part of your family should the boyfriend/girlfriend become? 

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When, how, and where to talk about sex with your teenager.

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Encouraging your teenager in a language they understand.

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Avoiding the accidental wounding from jokes that seem innocently funny to you but are slowly eroding the trust of your teenager.

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Identifying the signs that your child is becoming a pre-teen and building a healthy foundation for the years to come.  Addresses specific topics like communication, discipline, and independence for your upcoming teenager.

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An introduction to who we are and what we do.  Our desire is to encourage parents of teenagers and help them navigate these critical years in their child's life.

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Millennial Influence is proud to present Mi Podcast!  Mi Podcast strives to help encourage parents through an open discussion of topics relevant to raising teenagers.  We know that raising teenagers can be difficult and we want Mi Podcast to be a resource available to you in the times you need it most.

Mi Podcast will upload new episodes each Friday.  Mi Podcast is the length of a typical short commute (10-15min). We want Mi Podcast to be an easily available, free, convenient resource.  Please feel free to download and copy the podcast to cd to pass on to others who may benefit from it. 

Millennial Influence offers additional resources, and welcomes questions and comments at http://www.minfluence.com.