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 it going? How are all of you enjoying your summer? I want to know what you guys are up to,

what activities you're doing, what things you are enjoying doing for fun. I am always looking for fun

things to do with my kids or my teens are always looking for ideas of things to do. So you can

come connect with me over on Instagram at do. So you can come connect with me

over on Instagram at the teen life coach and come share with me your plans. I love chatting with

you guys on there. Today I kind of wanted to do a podcast about summer and summer plans.

And all the things you guys are thinking about what do I do this summer what is there to do

how do I find activities to do I know for some of you summer is exciting maybe you have family

trips planned or camps and activities to keep you busy but for many of you maybe your parents work

and you don't get to take family trips during the summer

or you don't have transportation to some of the things that you want to do or maybe even all

your friends are out of town and you aren't worried about being bored and being alone.

Summer for a lot of teens can cause some anxiety just because there is so much freedom

and there isn't that built in schedule and time to see friends and structured activities that

are already planned that provide, you know, social outlets and learning outlets that teens all need. And so summer can be

hard for many teens. For my family, we usually try to take some trips during the summer, but

this summer is a little bit different just because my husband, he can't take time off. And so my kids

are at home and they are having to entertain themselves because I'm

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