#3: Raising Imperfect Teenagers with Meg Duerksen

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Education, Arts

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Meg is creative, chill, and a mom of five teenagers. In this episode, she candidly and generously shares her experiences in parenting grown people who still live in your house. Her words are kind, honest, and freeing. I can't wait for you to listen to this episode and get encouragement from Meg. Meg's post on raising teenagers that we all didn't know we desperately needed. Meg's amazing Instagram feed that will make you so happy: @megduerksen Follow Kendra on Instagram @thelazygenius. This podcast is hosted by Kendra Adachi and executive produced by Kendra Adachi, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey lazy geniuses, I'm Kendra Adachi and you're listening to the lazy genius podcast.
0:11.3	Here we help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that
0:15.6	don't.
0:16.6	This is season one episode three and my guest today is the Creative Me Colorful Genius
0:24.1	Meg Dirkson.
0:25.9	Her Instagram account is one of my favorites ever and no she is the real deal.
0:31.1	A wife and a mom of five to meters.
0:34.2	Meg is beautifully honest with us about how hard it is to raise kids.
0:38.7	A lot of you have asked for help on how to raise teenagers and Meg is an expert.
0:43.9	Not because she's done everything right but because she loves her kids.
0:48.2	Admits when she screws up and she gives the rest of us courage to be the same.
0:52.8	I love talking with Meg and I know you're going to love listening to her just as much.
1:04.0	I just I feel like I've sort of won the lottery a little bit in terms of I've got little
1:11.7	tiny kids and your kids aren't tiny anymore.
1:16.0	And so I kind of just want to like like so can everything like I'm just taking notes
1:22.9	for myself about this but I wanted to I'm so glad you're on because I wanted to talk
1:29.7	to you and I know a lot of people have questions about raising teenagers and you have a lot
1:36.8	of them.
1:37.8	Very true.
1:39.8	Can you tell me the ages of your kids right now?
1:44.1	Yeah right now.
1:45.8	My oldest is 21 and she's a junior.
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