Talking To Teens: Expert Tips for Parenting Teenagers
Kids & Family
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Falling into a destructive cycle with your teen is far too easy–and incredibly frustrating. You yell at them to stop coming home late every night, or beg them to stop neglecting their homework for their Netflix….but they just don’t listen. Even offering rewards or doling out punishments never seems to work. It can feel like you’re living the same day over and over again, with no end in sight!
On top of feeling like your words are falling on deaf ears, all the fussing and fighting can start to put a strain on you and your teen’s relationship. It’s hard when you feel like you and your kid are enemies, or like the two of you are always bickering instead of connecting with one another. How can we get kids to listen, while also keeping our relationships harmonious?
If we really want to end the cycle and connect to our teens again, we’ll have to change the fundamentals of our approach. Our guest this week is Matis Miller, author of The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child's Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills. Matis has been working as a clinical psychologist for over fifteen years, and has some groundbreaking ideas about how you can transform your parenting philosophy to bring peace to your home again.
Are you familiar with dialectic behavioral therapy? In this week’s episode, Matis and I are breaking down this fascinating method of clinical therapy, and sharing how you can apply it to tackle your toughest parenting battles. We’re also talking about how judgement and invalidation might be harming your parenting approach, and discussing how you can dish out more effective rewards and punishments.
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Ep 214: Resilience Through Emotional Management
Ep 213: Guiding Teens Through Grief
Ep 212: Reset Health by Starting with Stress
Ep 211: Everyday Risks We Take with Our Teen’s Health
Ep 210: Essential Money Talks to Have With Teens
Ep 209: Communication Tips for Tough Topics
Ep 208: Motivation, Dedication and the Warrior Mentality
Ep 207: Anxiety and the Communication Tools to Fix It
Ep 206: Building Character and Self-Awareness in Teens
Ep 205: Pressure, Pain, and Kids’ Athletics
Ep 204: ADHD Triggers and Emerging Solutions
Ep 203: The Importance of Rest for Productivity
Ep 202: Money Mindset For Self-Starting Teens
Ep 201: How Minds Change
Ep 200: A Supercut of Talking to Teens!
Ep 199: What the Science Says About Sexual Identity
Ep 198: Emotional Awareness for Better Self-Control
Ep 197: Happy Brain Chemicals and Teen Behavior
Ep 196: Do Genetics Determine Teens’ Behavior?
Ep 195: The Mindset of Success
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