In today’s episode, Quin discusses the unhealthy pattern of trying to express yourself and your needs toward someone you love and feeling like that person consistently receives your needs as an attack on them.

In response to that, Quinn teaches listeners how to break that pattern by:

1. Understanding the difference between attack versus communication
2. Disarming statements to use to help a discussion go well
3. Tips by Dr. John Gottman for creating soft start up in a conversation

Mind Renewal Tip:
Focusing on what you need someone to do versus what someone did wrong disarms a person’s defensiveness.

Scripture Renewal Tip:
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. Proverbs 12:15
7 Ways to Soften Start Up by John Gottman

1. Take responsibility
2. Complain without blame
3. Start with “I” Statements
4. Describe what is happening
5. Be polite
6. Be Appreciative
7. Don’t let things build up

Raising teenagers is hard on its own, but guiding teenagers in dating relationships can be harder than expected! As parents, we want to guide them but we often can find ourselves unsure as to how to keep them healthy, happy and protected when dating.

In today’s episode, Quinn empowers parents to:

1. Draw a boundary with their level of comfort in dating based on age and maturity
2. Have guidelines to teach kids for healthy relationships
3. See one hidden benefit that comes from teen relationships

Mind Renewal Tip:

Guiding our kids through dating relationships while they are in our home is a great way to prepare them for healthy relationships when they one day leave the home!

Scripture Renewal Tip:
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12

Liberty University can help you get there. Learn more here.

Parenting teenagers is fun and challenging all at once. You get to enjoy them being more independent but also have to navigate how to let them be independent while still guiding them in making good choices that they want to make on their own.

In today’s episode, Quinn encourages listeners to stay sane while parenting teens by:

1. Teaching parents how to not take it personally when your teen doesn’t enjoy you
2. Remembering the importance of protecting them digitally but giving them real life freedom
3. Giving grace when they make mistakes because they will

Mind Renewal Tip:
Even mature teens are immature! There brains aren’t fully developed so don’t be surprised when they show it.

Scripture Renewal Tip:
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6