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Take it or Leave it

Inside the Bowl Productions LLC

Kids & Family, Comedy

5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Meredith Masony and Tiffany Jenkins get real about parenting teens, mental health, and the dark side of social media in this heartfelt and hilarious episode. From Mer's daughter's driving milestone to the alarming trend of teens idolizing criminals online, they share personal stories and practical advice every parent needs. Plus, they recommend a helpful app (www.bark.us) to monitor kids’ online activity—check it out using Meredith’s affiliate code “Meredith20”. *(Note: Affiliate link supports the hosts at no extra cost. Honey coupon extension may redirect the commission.)* ### Links ### “Columbine Effect” https://bit.ly/4bXvWi1 BARK App www.bark.us (Code: Meredith20) Laundry Lady scented or fragrance-free Laundry Sheets: http://laundrylady.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	please be advised. This week's podcast will be discussing suicide and suicidal ideation. This is a
0:07.0	heavy topic, but I believe a necessary topic as our kids and teens mental health is of the
0:13.0	utmost priority. Welcome to Take It or Leave It.
0:24.6	I'm your host, Meredith Masonie.
0:26.6	And I'm Tiffany Jenkins.
0:27.6	This podcast will discuss all things, marriage, motherhood, and everything in between.
0:32.6	Please remember, we're not professionals at anything you may actually need,
0:35.6	so any advice we give
0:37.5	you can take or leave because it might be crap. On today's episode of Take It or Leave It,
0:42.7	I do want to warn anybody who does not want to listen to an episode that will deal with and discuss
0:51.5	mental health issues pertaining to tweens, teens, teenagers and ideation.
1:04.5	We will later on in the episode get into something that I recently just learned about and I wanted to
1:13.0	share because as a parent of teens who are on TikTok, I think it is very important that we discuss
1:21.0	this topic that we will get to in a little bit. So that is today's disclaimer on the episode.
1:29.0	Love it.
1:29.9	I mean, I don't love it.
1:32.0	No, I know what you mean.
1:34.4	Okay.
1:35.5	Yeah, but I thought we could just start off, though, because you took a little travel.
1:40.5	I did.
1:41.5	And I just thought we could catch up there about what happened last week and then kind of go into what we're going to talk about today.
1:47.8	Yeah.
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