This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

On today's episode of the Love Happiness and Success Podcast, we are talking about a very special kind of love, and that is the love that happens in a healthy family.

You know, one of the most important relationships any of us have is that between parents and kids.

And if you have been a parent or or even a child as a matter of fact, you'll know that this kind of relationship has ups and downs and it really evolves and changes

over time. And the parent-child relationship, as you're possibly aware, can get very difficult

during the teen years. And if that is managed well, it sets an incredibly strong, healthy foundation for the

adult child relationship that you have as a parent or a child going forward. But if you're not

careful, you know, things that happen during the teen years can take a toll on everybody involved,

kids, parents, a marriage. So it is super important that we're talking about this topic.

And I've actually heard from a number of you listeners that this is something you'd really

like to have more conversation around and more guidance around. So for that reason on today's show,

I have invited my colleague, Kanye, who is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more

than 20 years of experience and not just helping couples and individuals have healthy

relationships, but she does a lot of work as a parenting coach and has a

special area of expertise around parenting adolescents. And so I wanted her to join us today to talk

about the trials and tribulations of parenting teens and give you some hopefully, you know, strategic and actionable ideas

that can help you create as positive of an experience as possible for yourself, your kid,

and your whole family.

Kanye, thank you for joining me today.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here.

Well, let's just jump right into our topic. I mean,

you are a marriage and family therapist. You've been doing this for 20 years. And maybe we

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