Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and this week we are going to talk about self-control.

Hey guys, happy new year. Welcome to 2022. You did it. I don't know about you, but I am excited for this next year. Great things are going to happen this year in my company, knowing up, and I am super excited for some great changes. My coaching practice has a waiting list right now, and this year I'm going to start

doing things a little bit differently so I can get more of you into my programs. So I'm excited

to work with more of you and help more of you out. So stay tuned for those updates and details

coming up. Okay. So today we are going to talk more about

social media skills and specifically today in regards to self-control and self-regulation.

Okay. So have you guys ever gotten your weekly screen report on your phone and been like,

what? I spent how many hours this week on my phone? I do sometimes and each week and sometimes

more than others, but I always seem to be surprised at how much time I spend on my phone. How much time do you spend on your

phone each week? If you don't get a weekly screen report, you can go into settings on your

phone to see what the total is. For many teens, the average amount of time they spend on their

phones is six to eight hours a day.

And I know that that number has actually gone up since COVID.

But I do think it is a good idea to just continue to look at your own phone usage amounts just to see where you are at and know that information just for your own personal

guidance. Okay. Self-regulation. What is it and what am I even talking about, right?

Self-regulation is basically taking control over yourself. And the control is independent of your parents, your guardians, or others like

teachers who remind you to turn in your assignments or sit still in class or stop talking

or put your phone away or don't say that word, okay? Those kind of things, right? Adults such as

parents and teachers, they play the role of helping us to figure

out what we need to learn in order to self-regulate and be independent. And in our teens, we are

learning how to be independence. We crave independence. Teens want independence, okay?

And a lot of times there is a lot of independence available to teens,

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