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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Lisa Damour: Understanding Today’s Teenagers

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How hard is it to be a parent today? After a pandemic? With social media breathing down our necks? It’s so hard! Navigating the delicate balance between granting independence and providing guidance can be daunting as a parent.  Dr. Lisa Damour (New York Times bestselling author of The Emotional Lives of Teenagers) has dedicated her life to unraveling the intricacies of adolescence and offering practical, heartfelt advice. In this conversation, Lisa and Kate: offer a more reassuring definition of mental health (hint: it’s about having the right-sized feelings that fit the situation at hand and managing those feelings effectively).  emphasize the importance of being a steady presence in kids’ lives, as well as offer scripts to try with your own teenager give language to what parents might be feeling if they missed this kind of parenting themselves  CW: Mental Health awareness  *** Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here. Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, I'm Kate Boller and this is Everything Happens.

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So, raising teenagers or even just the thought of raising teenagers feels different today than it used to.

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Or so says my mom, long gone are the landlines, mix tapes and the three TV channels that I would fight my sisters over.

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You might find yourself needing a teenager to adult dictionary, to help us decode their language of shoulder shrugs and whatever mid means.

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And yes, I think this rant officially indicates that I am gloriously and wonderfully old.

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But the world has changed, hasn't it?

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And navigating that delicate balance between granting independence and providing guidance can be daunting.

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Especially as we hear about the ways that teenagers mental health has been so affected by the pandemic, by social media, and by the social pressures that still exist from when we were young.

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I was once a teenager waiting for a reason to listen to the reality bite soundtrack and where more eyeliner than the Lord intends.

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It was wonderful.

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But you just get the feeling that every person who's young is doing it for the first time.

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And in a way, we all are.

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We get a lot of questions from you, beautiful listeners, about talking to young adults in your life, about hard topics, and navigating their mental health concerns.

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