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Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer. A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone and welcome back on today's episode.

We will be discussing teenagers and grandparents.

Ashley, I can't imagine that grandparenting and how to grandparent

teenagers would have been a topic even, oh, 20 or 30 years ago. I can't imagine that

grandparents even considered their role in their grandkids' lives too much. It wasn't a thing,

just like how the intentionality of parenting has become much bigger, more recently.

Right. And, you know, I was raised by my grandparents. So my grandparents were mom and dad,

essentially. Right. There's a totally different dynamic. Right. I hadn't even thought about that

until we started thinking about today that, you know i've talked about how parents sense

of their role in this self-consciousness about parenting has been such a change but just like you're

saying jessica yeah equally there's a big difference now in the goals and the role that grandparents

play or want to play in the life of their

grandchildren. And it especially gets to be tricky when they're teenagers.

Definitely. I'd like to discuss this kind of in two, from two perspectives, from the parents

perspective and what we can do as parents. And then speaking to grandparents and their role and what they can do as parents and then speaking to grandparents and their role

and what they can do to encourage relationship with their teenage grandchildren.

So let's start from the parents perspective. You know, as a parent, how do I encourage my parents

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