Your teenager is not meant to stay your dependent forever—and the way you handle the shift from 17 to 18 can either fracture trust or forge a deeper bond. Thomas Pfanner and Pete Armstrong unpack the hard, beautiful work of raising young adults with enough courage, honesty, and spiritual grounding to let them become who they were created to be. What starts as a conversation about children becoming adults turns into something far more personal: the father wounds, mother wounds, control patterns, and inherited fears that shape how we parent. Thomas shares how his son’s growing independence exposed his tendency to equate support with proving himself. Pete opens up about the painful moments that pushed him to stop trying to control his daughter and start trusting her agency. https://www.instagram.com/pete.j.armstrong/
Your teenager is not meant to stay your dependent forever—and the way you handle the shift from 17 to 18 can either fracture trust or forge a deeper bond. 119Thomas Pfanner and Pete Armstrong unpack the hard, beautiful work of raising young adults with enough courage, honesty, and spiritual grounding to let them become who they were created to be. What starts as a conversation about children becoming adults turns into something far more personal: the father wounds, mother wounds, control patterns, and inherited fears that shape how we parent. Thomas shares how his son’s growing independence exposed his tendency to equate support with proving himself. Pete opens up about the painful moments that pushed him to stop trying to control his daughter and start trusting her agency.
https://www.instagram.com/pete.j.armstrong/