Listen Again: Lisa Damour—Understanding Today’s Teenagers
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Everything Happens Studios
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 62 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
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| 1:22.8 | So raising teenagers, or even just the thought of raising teenagers. |
| 1:32.4 | And or even just the thought of raising teenagers feels |
| 1:35.8 | different today than it used to. Or so says my mom. Long gone are the landlines |
| 1:41.4 | mix tapes and the three TV channels that I would fight my sisters over. |
| 1:46.7 | 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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