A Tween Parenting Shift for the AI Era (Introducing The In-Between Years)

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Dr. Becky

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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If you’re parenting right now, it can feel like the world your kids are growing up in is changing faster than you can understand it. AI. Social media. Phones. New technology showing up everywhere. And many parents are wondering the same thing: How am I supposed to guide my kids through something I barely understand myself?

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0:00.0	If you've been listening to Good Inside for a while, you know that my focus has always been helping parents build strong, connected relationships with kids.
0:09.6	And as kids get older, that relationship gets more complicated.
0:14.9	Between and teen years just bring new territory, phones, social media, shifting friendships, dating, independence, identity,
0:21.6	and now things like AI and technology that we're still figuring out ourselves.
0:26.3	A lot of you have been with me at Goodenside for a while, and I keep hearing the same thing.
0:32.5	Dr. Becky, our kids are older now. Can you please grow up with us? And so we are. And this is really one of the
0:40.4	main reasons why we created a brand new podcast called The In Between Years, hosted by my colleague,
0:48.2	Dr. Cheryl Ziegler. Dr. Cheryl is a clinical psychologist who has spent decades working directly with tweens, teens, and their families.
0:57.7	And every week on the in-between years, she talks with real parents about the questions that start showing up during that stage of life.
1:04.8	And the moments that just feel confusing, scary, or totally new.
1:08.8	Just to get ahead of any questions, I will still be weighing in on the
1:11.9	tween and teen years. I mean, I have so many ideas I want to share too. And honestly,
1:17.3	Dr. Cheryl has been the colleague I've gone to, to ask my own questions, to talk about my own
1:23.0	struggles with the tween and teen years in my house. And so from time to time, I'll drop into the pod as well.
1:29.8	Questions that Dr. Cheryl is going to be exploring are going to be things like,
1:34.2	how do you talk to kids not only about technology, but about AI? How do you stay connected
1:40.0	when your kid starts to turn more toward their peers? How do you guide your kid through their
1:46.3	mistakes without them pushing you away or slamming the door in your face? And today I want to share
1:53.3	a short clip from one of Dr. Cheryl's recent conversations. This one is with a parent who's
1:59.3	feeling something I think all of us are feeling right now,
2:02.3	the sense that technology is moving faster than we can keep up with.
2:06.0	And in this moment, Dr. Cheryl reframes the whole problem in such a grounding and powerful way.
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