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    Giving Your Teen Freedom to Become an Adult (Part II of II)

    Jul 6 2023
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    Giving Your Teen Freedom to Become an Adult (Part II of II)

    Date: Jul 6, 2023

    Guests: Dr. Kenneth Wilgus

    Psychologist Dr. Kenneth Wilgus offers parents a strategy of "planned emancipation" whereby they can help prepare their teens for adulthood by carefully and progressively withdrawing their control over key areas of their teen's life. (Part 2 of 2)

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