June 28, 2023

The Best Advice for Dealing with Teenagers

How do we support our teenagers while providing them with firm yet reasonable boundaries? We asked our listeners for their best advice on raising teens, and they had so much great advice!

How do we raise healthy, loving, polite, and appreciative teens? Is it humanly possible? From remaining "passively available" to taking our adolescents' seemingly trivial problems seriously, our listeners had great advice for bringing up teenagers.

Amy and Margaret discuss:

  • The blessing of nerd-dom
  • How to keep your face in check when talking to your teen
  • Why it's important to let your teen fail sometimes


Here's our Fresh Take with Michelle Icard, author of "Fourteen Talks by Age 14"

Here's the link to the full thread in our Facebook group

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