What if the trait frustrating you most about your teenager isn’t a weakness—but a strength that hasn’t been guided yet?

In this conversation with Scotty and Casey Gibbons, realife discuss how unmet expectations create frustration and why parents shouldn’t be surprised when kids act like kids. Teenagers don’t arrive fully developed. They need patient parents who can recognize what God placed inside them and help shape it with wisdom, consistency, and grace.

Your teenager doesn’t need you to eliminate every difficult trait. They need you to help direct those traits toward the person God created them to become.

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Joshua and Liana recap the podcast with Dr. Vernon King Jr. and discuss how to have the sex conversation with your teenager.

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How should Christian parents talk to their teens about sex, pornography, intimacy, and sexuality without creating fear or shame?

In this episode of Parents Still Matter, Joshua and Liana sit down with Dr. Vernon King Jr. to discuss why these conversations need to happen at home before culture, friends, and social media shape what our children believe.

Dr. Vernon shares practical advice for creating a safe environment where your teen can ask hard questions, admit mistakes, and receive biblical guidance without feeling condemned. We also discuss pornography exposure, how parents should respond when they discover sexual behavior, and how early these conversations should begin.

The goal is not to make sex seem shameful. It is to help our children understand God’s design while knowing they can always come to us with the truth.

In this conversation:

• Why parents avoid talking about sex
• The danger of allowing the world to teach your children first
• How pornography can affect children and teens
• What to do when your teen asks an awkward question
• How to respond without panic, anger, or shame
• Why your teen needs you to become a safe person
• How to bring biblical truth into everyday conversations

This curated selection from the Building Teens Who Don't Leave their Faith Episode with Pastors Jacqui and Brenden Brown highlights the topic of how to help your teens see and grow in their gifts and abilites.

In this episode, Joshua and Liana talk with Pastors Brenden and Jacqui Brown and share insights on raising teens with faith, intentionality, and love. They discuss the importance of modeling, influence, and creating a family culture rooted in God’s principles.

key topics

• The importance of modeling faith and love in parenting
• Influence of community and church in teen development
• Creating a family culture based on biblical principles
• The significance of milestones and intentional moments
• The role of speech and language in shaping identity
• The impact of social media and peer influence
• Parenting through challenges and mistakes
• The importance of prayer and spiritual discipline

guest nameBrenden and Jacqui Brown

titles

• Raising Faithful Teens: Insights from Parents and Pastors
• The Power of Influence in Teen Parenting

Sound Bites

• "Seeing teens grow in their own faith is such a gift"
• "Every child has gold inside them, waiting to be uncovered"
• "Teach children to speak faith and life over themselves"

Chapters

00:00Introduction and Background of the Browns

03:02The Joys of Parenting Teens

05:58Navigating Faith and Personal Conviction

09:10Discovering Individual Identities

11:59Intentional Parenting vs. Helicopter Parenting

14:59The Challenges of Parenting Teens

19:58Preparing for Independence

24:06The Importance of Speech and Culture in Parenting

33:59Building Confidence in Children

38:11The Role of Community in Spiritual Growth

43:12Intentional Parenting and Milestones

47:55Navigating the Challenges of Pastors' Kids

57:10Overcoming Regrets in Parenting

01:04:58The Power of Prayer and Connection

How do you explain God's perspective of homosexuality with your teenager? It's a complicated question, but God has answers. Listen and watch alone or with your teen to get real answers to this all to real question.

In part 3 we take the Biblical strategy and give you a step-by-step guide to discipling your teen. Most parents don't neglect this because they don't want to, but because they don't know what to do. Now, you will.

In part 2 of the PSM workshop, we breakdown God's Biblical strategy for discipling your teenager.

In part 1 of the Parents Still Matter workshop, you will see the damage happening in this generation and get fresh vision on why you still matter in life of your teenager even if they they don't show it.

Joshua gives 5 important things every parent needs to do if they don't want to lose their teen.

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