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The Parenting Today's Teens Podcast is a daily resource for parents raising teenagers. Hosted by Mark Gregston, a renowned parenting expert with over 45 years of experience, this podcast provides practical, expert advice for navigating the challenges of parenting teens. Whether you're struggling with defiance, emotional issues, or just want to understand your teen better, Mark’s guidance is raw, real, and always hopeful. Some episodes are co-hosted by Courtney LaFleur, LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and on-staff counselor at Heartlight, adding professional counseling insights to the conversation. Together, Mark and Courtney provide expert tips and real-life solutions to help you build…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mark Gregston combines teen perspectives with concrete guidance on trust, boundaries, consequences, and rebuilding strained parent-child relationships.
Parenting Today's Teens keeps returning to a difficult parental move: holding a boundary without letting anger take over the relationship. Mark Gregston pairs direct advice with conversations involving teens at Heartlight, where changes in trust and communication are described…
The fix-it reflex meets a teen who wants to finish a sentence; you know that kitchen table.
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A direct, practical case for turning family help into a lesson in responsibility and grace.
Entitlement can settle into family life almost unnoticed, especially when routines keep doing too much for a teenager. Parenting Today's Teens follows Mark Gregston as he makes the case that teens may carry childhood expectations into work, marriage, and parenting unless parents…
A teen's story shows how listening first can help rebuild trust between parents and adolescents.
A teen's account of rebuilt trust with parents gives this installment of Parenting Today's Teens its clearest shape. The conversation moves from routine phone calls about the week into more honest exchanges about counseling homework and difficult feelings.
A calm parent can keep a firm consequence in place without letting the relationship become the casualty.
This single episode is strongest when it stays inside the hard space between conviction and compassion. Mark Gregston treats a family boundary as something rooted in a parent's belief, not a mood, and he keeps returning to the same practical question: what happens after a…
A dating question opens into a pointed look at boundaries, parental convictions, and whether love at home feels conditional.
Teen dating is treated as a test of parental trust, boundaries, and a parent's willingness to stay close in Parenting Today's Teens. Mark Gregston frames dating as experience that can help a teenager understand what she wants from a relationship, while still holding a firm line…
A direct episode on rebuilding connection with a teen through listening, restraint, and steadier communication.
The episode argues that a stronger relationship with a teen has to come before a heavier focus on household structure, rules, and consequences.
A plainspoken family conversation about regret, repair, and the awkward start of trust.
This episode stays close to a tense mother-son relationship and the regret that hangs over it. Mark Gregston keeps the talk plain and direct, and the best stretch is when it sounds less like guidance and more like someone trying to say the hard thing without hiding behind polish.
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Mark Gregston discusses the importance of giving grace to teens when they make mistakes, emphasizing unconditional love.
Mark Gregston shares a devotional based on Proverbs, emphasizing the value of wisdom over knowledge for parenting teens, and discusses how modern information overload makes this ancient advice crucial.
Host Mark Gregston interviews two teens from the Heartlight residential counseling center.
Mark Gregston says teen entitlement grows when parents keep giving “everything” and never require work.
Mark Gregston sits with Samantha from Heartlight, who says she has gone from exploding over "the smallest things" to learning compromise and respect.
Mark Gregston and Wayne Shepard focus on parenting teens with “conviction and compassion,” with Gregston saying he was more intentional with other people’s kids than his own.
Parenting Today's Teens uses a Q&A format to tackle a 14-year-old freshman skipping school, an 18-year-old college student who has stopped working, a 16-year-old who refuses to call his dad, and an eighth-grader found looking at hard porn.
Mark Gregston uses Parenting Today's Teens to argue that parents bridge distance with teens by changing communication, rules, and control as adolescence changes.
Mark Gregston asks listeners to help recruit young adults to join the residential staff at Heartlight, a Christian counseling center for struggling teens.
Mark Gregston asks listeners to help recruit young adults to join the residential staff at Heartlight, a Christian counseling center for struggling teens.
Mark Gregston and Wayne Shepard discuss how parents can build deeper connections with their teens in today's culture.
Mark Gregston asks listeners to help recruit residential staff for Heartlight, a Christian counseling center for struggling teens.
Mark Gregston interviews a teen at Heartlight about her struggles with disrespect and the program's role in her transformation.
Mark Gregston asks listeners to help recruit young adult staff for Heartlight, a Christian residential counseling center for struggling teens.
Mark Gregston asks listeners to help recruit young adults to join the residential staff at Heartlight, a Christian counseling center for struggling teens.
Mark Gregston interviews a teen at Heartlight about her journey from disrespect to transformation through Christian counseling.
Mark Gregston promotes a residential counseling center for teens and encourages parents to influence their teens in a godly direction.
Mark Gregston discusses recruiting young adults for a residential counseling center and then addresses teen entitlement.
Mark Gregston answers questions about a 17-and-a-half-year-old's anxiety, depression, vaping, nicotine, and marijuana use by shifting consequences toward personal responsibility.