Parenting Teens
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
So, how's it going parenting four tweens and teens between us? We'll tell you! From what's lovely about teens to living with teenage roommates and the shifts we're making in our parenting. Plus the lessons we want them to learn before leaving the house.
Just for Friends of the Show on Patreon, we hear from the tweens and teens themselves! They share what they're into lately and give their reviews of our parenting lately.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Erica. And I'm Kelsey. In every episode, we bring our different |
| 0:08.7 | perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show |
| 0:14.0 | years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and |
| 0:18.2 | laugh about yet. Today's episode is all about parenting teens. |
| 0:22.8 | You have an official teenager now. I do. Like yesterday. I do. I have a teenager and one who is just a few |
| 0:30.0 | weeks away from teenagehood. So we're getting, we're getting our feet wet. Yes. We are new teen |
| 0:35.7 | parents. We're in it. We are in it. But we want to share today, |
| 0:39.1 | number one, what we find to be the pleasantly surprising joys of parenting teenagers, |
| 0:44.0 | what it's like having teenage roommates that nobody really talks about, shifts we're making |
| 0:48.3 | in our parenting as our kids enter these years, and then important life lessons we hope |
| 0:52.7 | they learn before going out into the world |
| 0:54.5 | on their own. In our segment just for friends of the show, we'll be hearing from the tweens and teens |
| 1:00.5 | themselves. This is really fun. This is very fun. We wanted to get a feel for what it's like |
| 1:05.4 | to be a teenager from their perspectives and just let you hear how grown up they're sounding. |
| 1:09.7 | It's so cute. So we are fairly |
| 1:12.0 | new to the teen parenting game, but if you want more parenting content from us in general, |
| 1:16.4 | be sure to check out a few of our favorite episodes on raising kids. We have one called |
| 1:20.3 | Parenting Toddlers and Nothing is Easy. Oh, classic. And I think a lot of that still applies or |
| 1:25.5 | applies again. We should probably relisten to that ourselves. |
| 1:28.5 | We have a back to middle school conversation. |
| 1:31.6 | And another one that was really great was hard conversations with kids. |
| 1:34.9 | So check those out in our archives on our website, Girl Nextdoor, podcast.com. |
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