Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.

The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of

frustration. I am here to help you along your

teen journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.

Hey, you guys, welcome to the podcast this week. How's going it is easter sunday and we just had a lovely

family dinner and everybody's just kind of having some chill time right now and so i'm like i am

going to go record this week's podcast i don't know if you guys have tried the chocolate peanut butter cream pie from Costco, but we had that today for Easter dessert.

And it is so good. So my tummy is nice and happy. If you haven't tried that pie, I definitely suggest it.

Okay. So happy Easter, you guys. Hope that you had a good Easter weekend. For today's

podcast, I received a message from a teen on Instagram and they requested the topic that I'm

going to be discussing with you today. And they were wondering what to do when parents don't validate or understand what you are going

through. Let's talk about this today. I get this on a personal level because I had a really

hard time talking to my parents as a teen. I remember lots of instances feeling super frustrated with my parents.

One especially was when I was a senior and it was prom night and I was trying to get my parents

to just listen to me about why I wanted my curfew to be a little bit later than normal.

And they just wouldn't listen.

It was so frustrating.

And I just remember being so angry and trapped.

And they were just so unreasonable sometimes, I thought, as a teenager.

And even now, like in my adult brain, I get really worked up thinking about some of my

conversations with my parents.

And it can just be really frustrating when parents are sometimes like it's my way or the

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