How can my husband and I get on the same page about parenting our teen?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Melinda and addresses the question “How can my husband and I get on the same page about parenting our teen?” As their children get older, Melinda and her husband have encountered the new experiences that come with parenting teenagers. It is easy to become defensive when we have a disagreement. The key to avoiding defensiveness is often in how we speak to each other. Dr. Hanks talks to Melinda about ways she and her husband can do this and help the...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your fate. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships. Join me here every week
0:39.5	as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:45.1	Today, I'm thrilled to welcome Melinda to the podcast. Welcome. Thank you. I'm excited to be here.
0:52.3	A little bit nervous. Are you? That's okay. Totally normal. What is your question for me today?
1:00.0	Okay. So my question is, how can my husband and I compromise or just be more forgiving to each other when we don't agree about some things parenting with basic things, but for parenting
1:12.0	our teens.
1:13.8	Okay.
1:14.6	So tell me more.
1:16.3	Yeah.
1:16.9	Okay.
1:17.3	So we have six kids.
1:19.1	And our oldest is just barely getting into like having freedom as a teenager.
1:23.7	He just turned 16 last month.
1:25.6	And then we have a 14 year old son. And then on down,
1:29.1	they kind of stretch out our youngest with two. So nothing big and heavy yet, but we're always
1:37.1	like, you let him do that. No, I mean, I thought it'd be okay. So. And I think as more come along,
1:43.6	we never sat down and said like, this is how we're going to parent our teenagers. And I think as more come along, we never sat down and said like, this is how we're going to
1:47.2	parent our teenagers or this is how we're going to raise our babies. We just kind of have done it as we've
1:51.8	gone along. Yeah. And so now we're at this point where one of us, I think, always leaves feeling
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