521: Why Teens Act the Way They Do (and What Adults Get Wrong) | Ann-Louise Lockhart, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Clinical psychologist Dr. Anne Louise Lockhart breaks down what teens are really communicating beneath their behavior, and why connection—not control—matters most. We discuss key insights from her new book Love the Teen You Have and how reframing “conflict” can strengthen any relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | What up, team? It's episode 521 of The Genius Life. Let's go. |
| 0:08.0 | What is the genius Abley |
| 0:22.9 | What up everybody |
| 0:24.6 | What up everybody? Welcome back The Genius Life. |
| 0:38.7 | What up everybody. Welcome back to The Genius Life. I'm your host, Max Lugavir. Today, teens, why the rebel, why punishment backfires, and how to turn blowups into real connection. My guest is clinical psychologist, Dr. Anne Louise Lockhart, who works with teens and coaches parents, so she sees both sides of the chaos. In this conversation, we unpack the |
| 0:44.0 | need beneath the behavior. Is it rebellion or individuation? The difference between discipline |
| 0:49.7 | and punishment and simple ways to build executive function skills when the prefrontal cortex |
| 0:54.7 | isn't fully online. We also get practical on phones, social media, and AI, what boundaries |
| 1:00.7 | actually work, plus the unsexy lever that changes everything, parental self-care. Parental |
| 1:06.4 | or not, this episode offers a communication masterclass that you can use with any relationship. Listen all the way through to the end, you're not going to want to miss a beat. And as always, don't forget to share this episode with friends and loved ones who may benefit from it. If you enjoy the show, please rate and review on your podcast app of choice and subscribe on YouTube. And with all that out of the way, here's episode 521. Let's rock. Dr. Anne Louise Lockhart, welcome to the show. How you doing? |
| 1:28.6 | I'm doing good, Max. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm so excited to have you. This is a topic. Some of my favorite guests, you know, the topics |
| 1:35.8 | of the episodes are those that are far outside of my wheelhouse because I get to learn. |
| 1:42.0 | You know, there's only so many conversations you could have about ultra-processed foods and calorie deficits and muscle protein synthesis. |
| 1:50.2 | So I'm excited to learn about all things teenagers today. |
| 1:53.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.5 | Well, let's like dive right in. |
| 1:56.3 | Okay. |
| 1:56.7 | I'm not a parent, but what would you say that parents get most wrong about teenagers? |
| 2:04.0 | That's a great question. |
| 2:05.5 | The thing that, well, as a background, I see teenagers in therapy, and I also do parent coaching. |
| 2:13.8 | So I get to see both perspectives. |
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