Ages and Stages: Boss Level

Childproof

Gwenna Laithland and Tori Phantom

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tori and Gwenna discuss the challenges of parenting middle grade, preteen, and teenage children. They emphasize the importance of maintaining open communication and trust with their children during this stage while addressing the misconception that teenagers are solely driven by hormones. They recommend Rachel Coler Mulholland's book, 'The Birds, The Bees, and The Elephant in the Room,' as a helpful resource for navigating teenagers and the need for open communication. Tori and Gwenna round it out by emphasizing the importance of empathy, mutual respect, and boundary-setting when parenting middle graders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Child Proof from Betches Media. I'm Tori Phantom and she is Guinele Fund.
0:13.0	Today's episode is the finale of the three-part series
0:15.9	that we totally did on purpose and knew
0:17.8	was going to be three parts when we started talking
0:20.1	the first part on ages and stages. Yeah totally it was totally meant to be a
0:24.3	three-parter we thought we were going to talk that little so... about all of these
0:30.0	things in just one episode I don't cover it. Today we're going to be talking about middle grades, preteens, and teenagers.
0:37.0	Tori, do you know how hard it is for me not to break out into my chemical romance right now?
0:42.0	Okay, but real question, did teenagers actually scare
0:45.8	the living shit out of you?
0:48.5	No, sometimes.
0:51.1	It depends.
0:51.9	Yeah, that song came out when I was a teenager and I was so angsty and now I'm like I see it from the other side now.
0:57.8	I see I there two things can be true honestly two things can be true.
1:00.8	Right there's this song can be taken ways, but let's start the timer and not just keep talking about
1:06.0	Micam.
1:07.0	Okay, so I do have to get this out of the way. I believe two things can be true.
1:16.0	Teenagers are very scary to deal with because so much has happened. The problem with middle grade, pre-teens, and
1:27.2	teenagers is they start looking like adults while still acting like children.
1:34.5	So if I thought determining what my kids can and cannot do,
1:38.3	what is reasonable for me to expect of their behavior
1:41.8	and their decision-making skills was hard when they were in second grade.
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