Help for the Unspoken Challenges of Parenting Teens :: Amy Betters-Midtvedt [Ep 493]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like your teens have hidden struggles that you can’t talk to anyone about? How do you honor your kids while still finding safe people to process parenting with? How do you advise your kids on their friendships and relationships?

Today, Amy Betters-Midtvedt is here to help us navigate the deep waters of parenting teens. Amy is a teacher with a master’s degree in leadership and is currently a literacy coach. She has five kids in all stages of life from college to kids still at home, some of her kids have had teen struggles that Amy has had to learn how to navigate. She shares her ideas in her new book, You’ll Make It.

We cover how to handle changes in our teen’s friend groups, what to do if your teen’s friends are a bad influence, and having the humility as a parent to say “I messed up”. Amy shares some very personal stories about her teens and anxiety (with their permission) and how their family faced that challenge head-on to overcome and get back to the things they love to do. Parenting teens can be hard but there is so much joy in watching them become who God created them to be, Amy will teach us how to partner with the Lord as we navigate these formative years.

Connect with Amy Betters-Midtvedt:

Website: Amy Betters-Midtvedt (amybettersmidtvedt.com)
Instagram: Amy Betters-Midtvedt (@amy.betters.midtvedt)

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. I'm your host Heather McPhadian and this is the place where I get to walk
0:14.0	alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't
0:18.8	mom alone and in this episode number 493 I'm welcoming to the show Amy Fetters Midbit.
0:26.8	And then we want to look at that kid and realize they're right there in front of us and
0:30.3	we have all these other minutes to still connect and focus and to build this new
0:36.3	relationship with them and this relationship can last an entire lifetime. It can
0:41.3	last forever. It's not 18 years they don't leave and you never see them again. If you
0:45.2	connect and are in relationship with this new version, you are going to find so much
0:51.4	joy and so many things that are amazing and cool.
0:54.8	Amy is the mom to five children ages 12 to 22 who just all happened to be living at home this year.
1:04.6	And she's a seasoned educator working with teens and children for 25 years. She's a today parenting
1:09.1	contributor and the author of the book, you'll make it and they will too, everything no one talks about when you're
1:14.4	parenting teens. Today, she and I are going to help you feel less alone in parenting your teen.
1:21.1	Maybe you don't even feel like you have in real life people you can
1:24.7	talk to. We're gonna even navigate that. How do you find those safe people? How do you
1:31.2	help your teens navigate their friend groups? I'm going to ask
1:34.4	her some challenging questions about influence and how do we as parents
1:39.5	acknowledge when we maybe have messed up ourselves.
1:43.2	What if your child is struggling through mental health?
1:46.0	What if they don't want to go to school?
1:48.2	How do you work through that challenge?
1:51.1	We're gonna get that practical, more than anything, Amy has a really fun energy,
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