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Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times best-selling parenting books, takes your questions.

And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.

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Episode 89, how do I get my teen to take charge of her life?

Well, we've got some breaking news that is absolutely incredible.

Drum roll, please.

Oh, Rina, that's a good drum roll.

I am thrilled to share that I will be publishing a new book in February of 2023.

It's available for pre-order now, but it won't come until February 2023 called The Emotional Lives of Teenagers.

Exactly what parents need today.

I hope it's helpful, Rina.

Oh, I know it'll be helpful. Oh, man. You know hope it's helpful, Rena. I know it'll be helpful.

Oh, man. You know, it's heartbreaking what teenagers have been through in the pandemic and in its wake.

And, of course, it's not like it was easy to be a teenager before the pandemic. So there's a lot to talk about.

So what will you get into in this book? The way I approached the book was to really try to unpack some of the myths that we have about how teenage emotions work.

It's my first all-gender's book, so I have an entire chapter on gender and helping people

understand how we see gender and its role in the emotional lives of young people.

And then it gets extremely practical in terms of what to expect when you're expecting teenage

emotionality and then how to handle it so the teenagers become. And here's the subtitle of the book,

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