Teen Solutions Podcasts
Creating Space for Teenage Expression
What you will learn about in this episode:
- Why same-sex mentoring is so important
- The issues that can be uncovered when teens are free to talk openly about anything
- How social media is pressuring teens today
- A parents job is to raise and launch their children. Find out what that means!
- Why it’s important to take an interest in who your teenager is
- Phone use and boundaries plays a big role in developing relationships with your teen
- Does your teen want to spend time with you, even when they act like they don’t?
- Dad’s have some advantages as a single parent that Moms don’t have
- Teenagers are under the pressure of perfection, so we have to counteract that as parents
- Encouraging your teen to express themselves as who they want to be to the world
Connecting and Communicating with Teen Boys
What you will learn about in this episode:
- How to build a stronger relationship with your teens
- Recognizing stress in your teenager
- The 6 levels of connection with your children
- Providing a balanced life for your teens
- Guiding them to focus on their responsibilities
- Preventing depression
- Dealing with anxiety
- How to earn your teen’s trust
- When to seek support for your teenage son
- 5 tips for single parents with teen boys
How to Help Your Teenager with Anxiety and Stress
What you will learn about in this episode:
- The high levels of stress for teens today.
- Where she becomes concerned about the stress turning into worry.
- What she sees coming up with teens who are battling with stress.
- The most important message that you can give to your child: You’re enough and I love you exactly as you are.
- The need for boundaries with parents and teens, to create a sense of safety.
- The need to rest and integrate and recover from the necessary stress.
- The importance of healthy downtime in teen’s lives.
- That boredom has value in stimulating creativity.
- A good boundary to use- taking away your teen’s cellphone at night.
- That it’s never too late to create boundaries with teens.
- How important it is for your teen to feel connected to you and supported if they’re experiencing anxiety.
- Finding balance, to relieve anxiety.
- Creating the space for your teen to hang out with you… and not with their cellphone.
- Ways that teens tend to try to have control and slow things down in their lives.
- Why teens tend to resist so much.
- That the expectations placed on teens today are higher today than they were in the ’70’s and ’80’s.
- Ways that you can begin to connect meaningfully with your teenager.
