Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostus, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. I have somebody that has been a huge

parenting help to me, but not in the way that we often see on social media. I went since I had my last kid have found

a million and one different accounts helping you through the baby and the toddler years or the

pregnancy, all of that postpartum, but felt completely lost when it came to parenting teenagers.

And if you actually sit down and pay attention, you will realize that besides the teenagers that are actually introducing themselves on social media, you often don't see them, which makes it really difficult to learn about them and not have a ton of fear around them. So today's guest is Whitney Fleming. And she is of the account Whitney Fleming writes and she is sort of like talking about

the teens. So welcome Whitney. I'm so excited to have this conversation about this almost

invisible age it feels sometimes when it comes to preteens and teens and learning to parent

those years that there seems to be just a heck of a lot of fear

around. So introduce yourself. Let us know how you got into this line of specialty and what sort

of inspired it in the first place for you. Sure thing. I mean, first, thank you so much for

letting me even come on. It's,

I've always loved your account because you're vulnerable and you talk about things that are

really hard to talk about and admit, especially on social media. And that's where I think

I've had this connection to you and really felt empowered by you.

And as I'm a girl mom, I have three teenage girls.

They're only 16 months apart.

Oh, wow.

I have a set of twins.

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