Navigating Teen Turbulence- Experimentation, Lack of Motivation, & Technology Addiction- Episode # 783
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Dr. John Duffy joins us as we take questions from Team Zen regarding teens experimenting with drugs and alcohol, lack of motivation, screen time, time management, and challenges with youth sports coaches.
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(00:25:07) 20 year old son stuck and unmotivated
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(00:39:40) 17 year old daughter struggling with screentime and time management
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.7 | This is Kathy. |
| 0:07.4 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:11.3 | This is podcast number 783, but it's also Zen Talk number 192. |
| 0:19.4 | We're doing two different things here today, aren't we, sweetheart? |
| 0:22.5 | Actually, we're doing three different things. |
| 0:24.2 | Actually, we're doing four different things. Maybe five. Let's do six. |
| 0:27.4 | Well, I know we're doing. We're doing three because this is a podcast. This is a Zen talk, |
| 0:32.8 | but it's also, actually it's four. We're making an announcement and we have a guest. |
| 0:36.8 | We have a guest. have a guest and our guest |
| 0:37.9 | is none other than one of my best good friends and kathy's best good friends dr john duffy |
| 0:42.6 | i love you guys good to be here yes look snaps up yes snapping it up so for the podcast |
| 0:49.1 | listeners what what is happening behind the scenes is kathy and i are here with about 14, Kathy and myself and John are in the same room. |
| 0:57.1 | And there's about 14 other team Zen people that I hope will have some questions for us. |
| 1:02.8 | And we got some other things that we want to talk about at the beginning. |
| 1:06.2 | And this is just an invitation for the podcast listener to kind of have an inside look at what |
| 1:12.8 | a Zen Talk is like, I guess. So, but first, Kathy and I have had, sometimes at night, we go to, |
| 1:23.4 | we watch threads or TikTok. What do we do? |
| 1:26.6 | Instagram Reels or TikTok. Yeah. we do? Instagram Reels or TikTok. |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | And she just kind of scrolls through. |
| 1:30.5 | And the intention is to laugh, right? |
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