Does Building Self-Esteem in Teens stop them Leaning on Booze?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
If we raise kids that have high self-esteem will this make them less likely to drink alcohol?
This episode is for the parents out there that are feeling scared about their kids becoming teens, going off the rails, drinking cider in farmers fields and putting themselves at risk because of bad teenage choices. This is also for anyone who was this child (lets guess at about 98% of our audience!) was it your low self esteem that caused you to reach for the bottle and would life have been different if our parents had taught us to simply love who we are?
Today Vic and Hame talk about about how they felt as teens, why they rebelled and why they felt 'less than' growing up? Don't worry, after they've bored you with all their angsty teen insecurities they'll turn it all around and find out why instilling good values and some good old self worth into our kids might mean they are less likely to follow a drunken crowd and make wiser choices by themselves.
Get your biro's out Mums and Dads. This one is going to make you into a proper adult!
Show Notes
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| 0:00.0 | The cattle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.7 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:09.5 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:17.4 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said I'm never drinking again |
| 0:21.0 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.2 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one while you head to a dodgy after |
| 0:29.1 | party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.7 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship with your reliable |
| 0:35.8 | social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.4 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.6 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.2 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 1:00.0 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. |
| 1:03.8 | An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety in mental |
| 1:12.6 | health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. |
| 1:16.5 | Won't that mean I become boring though, Vic? |
| 1:18.4 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm Victoria Vanstone. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm Hamish Adams Cairns. |
| 1:24.2 | And this is sober awkward. |
| 1:31.7 | So you know how when you were drinking, sometimes you could wear a hangover quite well and other days it would be cripplingly bad. Yeah. I've sometimes |
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