Meagan Schools Sarah on Parenting Teens: Episode 310
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Big news: Sarah is joining the Parents Of Teenagers club! In honor of Sarah’s oldest turning 13, Meagan taps into wisdom gained from over a decade of parenting teens and gives Sarah the real story. We unpack some stereotypes about teens (they’re moody! they’re smelly! they’re obsessed with their phones!) and find out what’s totally true, what’s sometimes true, and what might very much depend on the kid. We also explore some of the best and sweetest parts of parenting teens, validate that these are often very lonely years for moms, and compare teenage milestones to those reached earlier in childhood. Whether you’re a new mom or a mom of teens, we think you’ll enjoy this one!
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- Meagan wrote an essay for our newsletter about a conversation with her son Will, and then also wrote this Insta-essay about a different moment with Will
- Check out our episode Toddlers vs. Teenagers: Episode 192
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 310 of the |
| 0:25.9 | mom hour. I am Sarah Powers here with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah. So I'm |
| 0:31.8 | really excited about this today. I feel like I should I should be like sending |
| 0:35.7 | you a thank you card or something. You are going to help me today. Oh I am |
| 0:39.2 | planning on giving it like showing you the ropes, giving you the initiation, the |
| 0:44.4 | hazing, whatever, whatever you want to call it. Pretty excited that you're |
| 0:48.1 | joining this club. I am very excited to be joining the club of parents of |
| 0:52.9 | teenagers. So the day we record this, I have one week left with a 12 year old |
| 0:58.3 | who turns 13 on the 29th of April. The day that listeners are probably |
| 1:02.8 | hearing this, it will be just a couple of days away or maybe you're listening |
| 1:06.5 | a couple of days late and it actually is my day. So I do feel like there should |
| 1:09.7 | be like something ceremonial like, you know, cloaks and candles or something. |
| 1:15.3 | Well, cloaks sounds a little creepy, but what I think would be really cool is if, |
| 1:19.4 | you know, somehow, like what would be the podcast equivalent of like confetti, |
| 1:24.1 | like virtual confetti coming down. If I type like, you're a mom to a teenager now. |
| 1:30.4 | I love it. Well, you know, we have trusty Brian, our sound engineer, not my |
| 1:34.6 | husband, Brian, who sometimes inserts fun sounds. So if you heard one of those |
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