DEEP DIVE: Best Advice for Dealing with Teenagers

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How do we raise healthy, loving, polite, and appreciative teens? Is it humanly possible? From remaining "passively available" to taking our adolescents' seemingly trivial problems seriously, our listeners had great advice for bringing up teenagers. Amy and Margaret discuss: The blessing of nerd-dom How to keep your face in check when talking to your teen Why it's important to let your teen fail sometimes ⁠Here's our Fresh Take with Michelle Icard, author of "Fourteen Talks by Age 14"⁠ ⁠Here's the link to the full thread in our Facebook group⁠ Sign up for What Fresh Hell Plus on Supporting Cast to get all episodes ad-free, plus monthly bonus episodes. Supporting Cast works right where you already listen! Go to ⁠whatfreshhell.supportingcast.fm⁠ to subscribe in two taps for just $4.99 a month, or $39.99 a year. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home.
0:02.5	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
0:05.7	I've ruled out uni because of my grades.
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0:22.8	So rethink your future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University.
0:28.3	The future is open.
0:31.6	On the opposite of poker face, I reveal too much. What fresh hell.
0:36.4	Laughing in the face of motherhood. I was so unpopular in high school
0:41.1	with Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. The whole system is broken. A podcast that solves today's
0:48.6	parenting dilemmas so you don't have to. My kids have the blessing of nerddom.
1:01.1	Hello, everyone, and welcome to What Fresh Hell laughing in the face of motherhood.
1:04.8	This is Margaret.
1:05.7	And this is Amy.
1:06.5	And today we're talking about your and our best advice for dealing with teenagers. Dealing with teenage. I have two now. I have two. I have a newly minted. I have two. You're out the other side. I've one that's so old. Right. Exactly. Hard as that might be to believe they do eventually get spit out of that water slide into young adulthood. Yeah. So we'll talk about that some other time.
1:28.4	I feel like that's the good news, really. It's pretty good. I've got to say so far, life with a 20-something. Yeah. I like that. So you've survived a full teenage dump. Yes. Now I have a 15-year-old and an 18-year-old and then one older. And how about you? how old are your teenagers?
1:24.6	Well, I still have an 11-year-old, and then I have 13 and 14.
1:27.2	So we're just creeping into it.
1:29.0	13, 14. 18 year old and then one older and how about you how old are your teenagers well i still have an 11 year
1:44.6	old and then i have 13 and 14 so we're just creeping into it 14 14 15 18 this is good because we got
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