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You're listening to 3 in 30 takeaways for Mom's episode 38. How to get your teenagers to talk to you and it starts when they're little.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for moms who want to create more meaning and motherhood.

Each 30 minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family this week.

I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

I'm in the hands-on, kind of exhausting phase of motherhood where I have little children.

I have two kids, one who's six and one who's three and I hope to have more kids.

And so, they still really need me and want me. And sometimes that can feel really overwhelming.

But then I talk to my friends who have older children, preteens or teenagers.

And I realize that this phase of my life where I can solve my kids problems really is such a charmed moment in time.

Because my friends have teenagers who are facing really big, really serious struggles, some of them, and they won't talk to their parents about it.

Or even those who aren't facing major things, they're just kind of going through these phases, they're figuring themselves out and they're pushing their parents away.

And as a mom whose kids think I am just the greatest right now, it's kind of heartbreaking for me to think about that in just a few years, they're not going to want to hang out with me every second.

And that does give me a little bit of perspective.

Today on the podcast, I have an expert guest who's going to teach us about how to maintain really positive relationships with our teenagers.

And it's things that we can start when they're little. And that will help when they're teenagers.

Or it's things that we can tweak and start doing when they're teenagers that will hopefully help us repair and continue to build and strengthen our relationships.

The guest is Tony Overbay, who you may recognize because he's already been on this podcast once before in episode 26.

He taught us how to praise our children when it feels like there's nothing to praise.

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