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 128: Persuade Your Teen With Story
Ep 127: How to Heal a Broken Bond
Ep 126: Making Awkward Conversations Easier
Ep 125: What To Do With a Negative Teen
Ep 124: The Upside of Rude Teens
Ep 123: Colleges, Universities, and What You're Really Paying For
Ep 122: Why Teens Rage and What To Do About It
Ep 121: How to Transform Troublesome Boys
Ep 120: The #1 Reason Teens Turn to Tech...
Ep 119: Fresh Advice from Dad
Ep 118: Lying, Stealing, and Power Struggles
Ep 117: The Warrior Challenge For Kinder, More Courageous Teens
Ep 116: Time Management for More Focused Teens
Ep 115: Beating Substance Abuse and Addiction
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