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but same applies to any professionals who may appear on the Light the Fight podcast. Everybody, welcome to another episode of Light the Fight.

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your very first pair of sunglasses. So let's get to the episode. Today I'm going to continue

what I talked about last week's episode in regards to giving advice for parents, how to have

conversations with your teenagers. This is a very specific conversation that came about

from a parent that I work with that

asked me, hey, I got a situation with my teenager.

My teenager is a little socially, not awkward.

Their teenagers actually very good socially, but in this situation, the teenager

has kind of taken a step backwards since school's been out

in the past two weeks. This teenager has been doing a lot of sleeping in, a lot of mosing around the

house, and not really getting out much. So before the school year ended, this teenager was actually

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